prizefighting

There was the prizefighting for Midnight and she could work.

Did some prizefighting when I was younger, know karate pretty good, too."

At one point Ventura was pursuing a prizefighting and professional wrestling career but had to end it because of an injury.

Through the late nineteenth century, boxing or prizefighting was primarily a sport of dubious legitimacy.

The don, however, thinks prizefighting has become "too ethnic," meaning too black and too Hispanic.

I didn't know prizefighting was like that," she faltered, as she released her hold on the lines and sank back again beside him.

His involvement in pugilistic prizefighting is generally seen to have coincided with a renewed interest in the sport.

He said: "The golden age of prizefighting was the age of bad food, bad air, bad sanitation, and no sunlight.

During the Regency period prizefighting enjoyed the patronage and protection of the gentry, and Mendoza was the subject of a portrait by Constable.

By 1962, while we blanketed major bouts with our best feature writers, we also demanded on the editorial page that "this brutal professional spectacle of prizefighting" be outlawed.

Prizefighter John L. Sullivan trained in the Irish Channel, since much prizefighting centered in New Orleans in the late 19th century.

The metaphors ranged from prizefighting to crucifixion and seemed properly rugged for the occasion: the Senate showdown over a controversial nominee caught on the cusp of the Presidential election season.

His prizefighting earned him a broken nose (later straightened), a scarred lip and many broken knuckles, bruised body (a result of not being able to afford tape used to wrap boxers' hands).

In several nonfiction books, Century has written about diverse subjects, ranging from inner-city gangs, organized-crime, undercover police investigations, military operations and the history of Jewish prizefighting in the United States.

Their frequent invitations for everybody to jump in and help revise their health program suggest an alarming lack of self-assurance by political standards, which are not much different from the standards of professional prizefighting.

When he went out to smoke Mrs. Mortimer led Saxon into talking about herself and Billy, and betrayed not the slightest shock when she learned of his prizefighting and scab-slugging proclivities.

The blame is not laid directly, but we finish reading the scene with the sense that poor Norman Mailer has been victimized by a devious form of conversational prizefighting, so deft that we never even saw Lowell throw the punch.

According to "Note on Modern Prizefighting" (1901) Shaw intended the fights described in Cashel Byron's Profession to turn the public away from the sport but the novel is written in such a light-hearted tone this unlikely result never materialized.

Bareknuckle prizefighting was also a major local attraction from which the George benefited: nearby Crawley Down and Copthorne were "the most renowned battlefields in the south of England", and the George itself became "the hub of the pugilistic universe".

"It's the whole esthetic of violence that's really disturbing," said Elliott Gorn, a history professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the author of "The Manly Art," a 1986 study of bare-knuckled prizefighting in early American history.