PLT RPT; B757. FIRST CLASS PAX GOT IN LOUD; VERBAL FIGHT OUTSIDE COCKPIT. CAPT HAD TO BREAK IT UP. POLICE MET FLT AND DETAINED PAX. NO CHARGES FILED.

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2 PAX WERE HAVING A FIGHT IN THE CABIN. A FLT ATTENDANT CALLED COCKPIT -- PANICKED. THE CAPT LEFT THE FLT DECK TO DEAL WITH THE SIT. THE PAX COMPLIED IMMEDIATELY WITH CAPT'S DEMANDS TO RETURN TO SEAT. POLICE MET ACFT. FBI CALLED. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR STATED THAT THE 2 PAX WERE SITTING IN FIRST CLASS ON A B757. ONE HAD JUST COME IN FROM AUSTRALIA AND WAS EXTREMELY TIRED; SO HE RECLINED HIS SEAT BACK TO SLEEP. THE MAN SITTING BEHIND HIM BECAME VERY AGITATED AND STARTED PUSHING THE SEAT FORWARD. THIS EVENTUALLY LED TO A VERBAL FIGHT AND ALMOST ERUPTED INTO A PHYSICAL FIGHT; RIGHT OUTSIDE THE COCKPIT DOOR; WHERE THE LAVATORIES ARE LOCATED. THE CAPT CAME OUT OF THE COCKPIT AND GOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT TO TRY TO GET THEIR ATTN THAT HE WAS THE CAPT. THEY WERE SO BLINDED BY THEIR ANGER THAT THEY COULDN'T EVEN SEE HIM. HE SAID HE DIDN'T BELIEVE ALCOHOL WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR. THE POLICE DETAINED THE 2 PAX FOR SEVERAL HRS BEFORE RELEASING THEM. THE FAA CALLED THE CAPT AT HIS LAYOVER HOTEL THAT NIGHT TO SEE IF HE WANTED TO FILE CHARGES; WHICH HE DIDN'T.