Whether it be over females or food, male Grizzlies often duke it out to establish dominance and territory rights---outstanding pictures of two male bears in the Katmai National Park in Alaska battling over food below

Japanese photographer Shogo Asao captures two grizzly bears fighting in Alaska's Katmai National Park

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A pair of grizzlies had an extraordinary stand-up fight after one pinched the other's lunch. Picture: Asao/Photoshot/Solent Source: Supplied

A pair of grizzlies had an extraordinary stand-up fight after one pinched the other's lunch. The beasts' ferocious roars echoed through a forest during the tussle, sparked by one male trying to steal salmon a rival had caught from the river. Picture: Asao/Photoshot/Solent Source: Supplied   

  IT'S a fight that would even make Daniel Geale and Anthony Mundine take a backward step.

A photographer has captured the moment two 2.4m tall grizzly or brown bears went claw to claw after one tried to steal a salmon the other had caught for his lunch.
Shogo Asao  60, who found the bears brawling in Katmai National Park in Alaska, felt like a "dead man walking" as the enormous creatures roared and fought three metres away from him.

 

"Suddenly, I saw two bears watching each other and roaring," he told the Daily Mail newspaper.
"They quickly began fighting wildly, without noticing that I was very near to them. One ran away until it was just three metres in front of me, and the other chased it at full speed.
"They were roaring, beating, clawing and chasing each other."
The professional photographer from Tokyo, Japan, captured the showdown.
"This is the first time I had seen such an exciting scene," he said. "I was so close to the violent animals that I felt like a dead man walking."

Bear-knuckle bust-up

A pair of grizzlies had an extraordinary stand-up fight after one pinched the other's lunch. Picture: Asao/Photoshot/SolentSource: Supplied

 

The two grizzlies, thought to be around six years old, exchanged blows for a few minutes before moving into the trees and continuing to fight, then disappearing from view.
"Female bears usually hunt salmon at isolated places away from the waterfall," the photographer said.
"They have to take care of their babies and want to avoid fighting.