Editing Defendu (section)

{{Short description|Martial art}}
{{About|the fighting style developed by Fairbairn and Sykes|Bill Underwood's system|Defendo}}
{{Infobox martial art
| name = Defendu
| aka = Gutter Fighting, Fairbairn's Gutter Fighting, The Fairbairn Fighting System, The Fairbairn system
| focus = [[Hybrid martial arts|Hybrid]]
| country =
{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| creator = [[William E. Fairbairn]], [[Eric A. Sykes]]
| parenthood = [[Boxing]], [[Judo]], [[Jujutsu]], [[Savate]], [[Wrestling]], [[Pro Wrestling]], [[Street fighting]], [[Chinese martial arts]]
| famous_pract = [[Rex Applegate]], Dermot M. "PAT" O'Neill, [[Devil's Brigade]], [[Ian Fleming]], Samuel G. Taxis
| olympic = No
}}

'''Close Quarters Combat System''' (also known as '''Defendu''') is a modern [[Martial arts|martial art]] developed by [[William E. Fairbairn]] and [[Eric A. Sykes]] prior to [[World War II]].  It is a [[hand-to-hand combat]] system based on practical experience mixed with [[Jujutsu]] and [[boxing]] that was developed to train the [[Shanghai Municipal Police]], and was later taught in expanded form to [[Office of Strategic Services]]  and [[Special Operations Executive]] members during World War II.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.gutterfighting.org/WhatIsDefendu.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020301092041/http://www.gutterfighting.org/WhatIsDefendu.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-03-01 |title=What Is Defendu? |accessdate=2007-06-23 |author=Carl Cestari |year=2006}}</ref>