We've lasted through the preliminary bouts; the main event is coming up.

This was the only preliminary bout aired during the broadcast.

This year's budget fight, they say, is just the preliminary bout for those races.

A preliminary bout, then, warming up his muscles for the main event.

Without Democrats of the center and right in the primaries, the preliminary bouts provide no training for the championship fight.

This preliminary bout was not aired on the broadcast.

The fight was notable as the only preliminary bout aired on the televised card.

I to put on the preliminary bout first, a little distractor.

He claimed that he never fought a preliminary bout in his career, just main events.

"Did you fight each other in this preliminary bout?"