Fighting

a.
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.
  2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
  3. A fighting chance ,
    one dependent upon the issue of a struggle.
    Fighting crab (Zoöl.),
    the fiddler crab.
    Fighting fish (Zoöl.),
    a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.