Complex sentence: Steve Davitt wins the fight, heads for the fence to escape, hesitates twice, looks back and sees his trustee-friend on the ground and decides against going over the barb-wired fence after all.
Split into simpler sentences: Steve Davitt wins the fight, heads for the fence to escape. After he starts climbing the fence, he hesitates twice, looks back and sees his trustee-friend on the ground and decides against going over the barb-wired fence after all.