Sometimes, you hear legends of people who kill tigers with their barehanded and such as that. This brought me to wondering... how would you deal with fighting creatures such as gnolls, or wild beasts in general?

A lot of fighting techniques include wrestling, in such a way that your opponent can't stab you or get at your eyes. However, I don't know if they often make provision for them having a set of predatory teeth and jaws.

With armoured parts, being bitten wouldn't be that much of a concern, of course--but still, I can imagine a lizardman biting someone's face off.