The phrase "grappled him" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to describe a physical altercation, conflict, or struggle between two people. For example, "The two men grappled each other in the street as they argued over the disputed issue."
After an explosion and the start of a fire, an emergency firefighter confronted the suspect at around 10am and attempted to stop him by grappling him to the ground and holding him until local gendarmes could arrive.
The Latino man, who had done gardening work for her, had returned to rape her... Sean rushed out with the gun, and struggled with the man, who bested him... Melanie grappled with him as he attempted to lash out with a shovel, and for a moment when she looked him full in the face, she saw Dr. Toni Brinsley-Schneider, Dr. Brinsley-Schneider the bioethicist, just her.
The Latino man, who had done gardening work for her, had returned to rape her... Sean rushed out with the gun, and struggled with the man, who bested him... Melanie grappled with him as he attempted to lash out with a shovel, and for a moment when she looked him full in the face, she saw Dr. Toni Brinsley-Schneider, Dr. Brinsley-Schneider the bioethicist, just her..
Low grappled with him, and in self-defense had to choke him; he was then thrown overboard.
Down the block, the robber collided with a man who grappled with him briefly.
During one of his songs some girls ran on the stage and grappled with him.
As the woman beat him with her pocketbook and screamed curses, a second Basij member tried to restrain her, but a male protester grappled with him in turn, and a fistfight broke out between the two men.
Then Winters saw Durham react unhappily in the dugout and he ejected Durham, as well, and when Durham realized he had been tossed, he charged onto the field and might've reached Winters if Jose Valentin hadn't grappled with him.
"Often I would grapple with him and frustrate him," Mr. Arnold said.
And a lot of times when I'm fighting with a guy and I'm grappling with him, I'm talking to him while it's happening".
