From what I see, there wasn't much reason for him to go for a weapon. There was only one attacker, he was trained Military/LEO. If anything, from what I saw, he needs to work on his empty hand and interpersonal skills.
Look at it this way, a preemptive draw would have likely cause more people to join and try to disarm him.
Now, for your questions, interpersonal skills. Sports and ego cause a lot of injury, and apparently both men seemed to have too much to back down. The guy who threw the first blow could have just as easily been ignored. In a situation where I'm outnumbered, I'm not getting in a boxing match with the one guy, I'd rather DEFEND myself and not continue the fight. There's a lot more to self defense than punching and offensive attacks...
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