Fighting knife 11 inch blade

[Shreckmeister]

[smokinbuck]

Rob,
I'm certainly not an authority but when I think of a "fighting" knife, I picture someting with a grip that you can get a good purchase on and a hand guard to protect the knuckles and stop an opposing blade. This looks to me to be a broken down butcher type knife or bread knife. IMHO
Mark

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

...definitely a dagger...double edged, long and straight.  If only it could speak, eh?

[art riser]

hog killing knife...

[mark esterly]

i would not want to use that in a fight.  without a hilt and that handle shape if you hit bone your own hand would slide forward and be sliced. 

[Shreckmeister]

I'm told this was originally a cane knife and reshaped for fighting a long long time ago.  Very heavy blade.  Urban myth perhaps.  I would certainly want a guard, but I'd take whatever I could get if
I really needed it.

[Collector]

I'm with Art Riser on this one- it's a pig sticker.