Seeing if an event is dispatching/function being performed

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It’s me back with my fighting game questions. Basically, in the frames of the animations, events are dispatched. When one is being dispatched, I dont want the other one’s function to be performed…I’m probably making this alot more confusing than it is supposes to be… If you can just picture it, in a fighting game I dont want the enemy to take damage, while both he and the player are colliding and attacking (whichever one was attacking first). geez that was a ramble.

Here is what I have: any suggestions? It should be pretty self explanatory. the enemyhit is dispatched by the player, and vice versa for the enemy.

public function playerHit(hittingevent:HittingEvent):void
		{
			if (fighter.hitTestObject(enemy) && (enemyHit !=true))
			{
			if (PixelPerfectCollisionDetection.isColliding(fighter,enemy,this,true))
			{
				fighter.y-=3;
			canMove = false;
			isJumping = false;           
			isAttacking = false;
			i**** = true;
			
			dy = fighter.y - enemy.y;
			dx = fighter.x - enemy.x;
			
			//Radians = Math.atan2(dy,dx);
			}
			}
		}


public function enemyHit(hittingevent:HittingEvent):void
		{
			
			if (fighter.hitTestObject(enemy) && (playerHit!=true)) 
			{
			if (PixelPerfectCollisionDetection.isColliding(fighter,enemy,this,true))
			{
				
			removeChild(enemy);
			}
			}
		}
	}