i agree judo is great for this kind of thing. i actually used a kind of sloppy hip throw which turned into an osoto gari with underhooks or some shit on the second guy. he didn’t land hard though.
as for fighting multiples, i think you’re in trouble regardless of what you use. if someone i don’t see punches me in the back of the head, doesn’t matter where i am.
in this situation, i felt i had to finish them, put them to sleep. i’ll explain why.
starting the job, i knew what kind of situations would arise. there would be fights, i was expecting that. but i also assumed that i’d have some reasonable backup to help on the job. on this night and some others, i had to work alone. at most we had 2 guards working in the club. thinking back now, that pisses me off more than anything else. it isn’t reasonable to expect a single guard to stare down 6 tongans, but i did it. there were many times i could have been smashed by a group of cunts, but for whatever reason they decided not to. once for example, there were a group of guys standing in front of me, debating whether or not they should bash me and then go smash the club up. in the end they just couldn’t be bothered.
on the night i described in the story, as far as i’m concerned, i was just doing my job up until i let the guy up the first time and a crowd of people had gathered. after that point, i felt like i was potentially fighting for my life. i wanted to avoid getting knocked out and having my head stomped. i had no backup whatsoever. luckily i managed to finish both these guys within about 2 minutes, and the crowd was happy with how i conducted myself and didn’t turn against me.
i quit that job just a couple of weeks after it all happened, if i remember correctly.