How to pronounce “pugilistic” in English

So this octopus on the right there is moving across towards the others and as it goes, there will often be a kind of--I originally called this boxing, but now I realize I was being too pugilistic in my metaphors and it might be a kind of slap of recognitionor of something like indication of roles on the site that animals do by just by sort of jabbing at each other with their arms.