Bad Bad Leroy Brown v Jealous Man

Read this today and now I too question the logic of the narrative. Read it yourself and decide.

We're told again and again that Leroy Brown is "the baddest man in the whole damn town." Then how was it that he was defeated by some nondescript "jealous man" in a random bar altercation?

Okay, forget for a second that Leroy was called "sir" by all the men and liked to wear his diamond rings on "everybody's" nose. Why aren't we hearing a song the guy that beat him to hell? Wouldn't the title of Baddest Man in Chicago go to that dude?

The only solution seems to be that the Jealous Man was passing through Chicago with his wife, perhaps on the way to a martial arts tournament held in a small Southeasten Asian country. That way, he wouldn't have heard about Leroy Brown, *and* Leroy would still be "Baddest Man" in Chicago, as the singer suggests. Just not the Baddest Man in the world, obviously.

This doesn't settle the issue of why Leroy didn't use the gun in his pocket or the razor in his shoe when he came to fisticuffs with the Jealous Man.

Given that Jealous Man brought overwhelming force to the exchange, you think that Leroy, who had much to the lose in the way of status by being defeated on his own turf by Jealous Man, would've resorted to almost any means available to save face.