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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

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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

Grizzly bears go claw to claw.
Fight broke out after one stole the other's lunch.
Photographer captures fight from just metres away.

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."

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