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boxing

noun as in punching competition

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Stopping by The Carlos Watson Show, she and OZY’s co-founder and CEO — and podcasting partner on When Katty Met Carlos — cut it up over media, politics, and why she’s better at dancing than boxing.

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Many boxing analysts at the time indicated they feared for Leonard’s well-being against the punishing middleweight.

Tyson and Jones, 51, also will be wearing 12-ounce gloves, two ounces heavier than most officially sanctioned boxing matches.

Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history more than three decades ago.

Believe it or not, I had the strength to take Zumba and boxing classes.

Cal Poly Pomona student Heather DeCosta described it as “kind of just boxing us in at all four sides of the street.”

That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.

At a youth boxing gym up the street, Malloy tries to make small talk with the kids.

“Any time you do a big project on boxing, you have to include Cuban boxers because they are the best in the world,” he said.

Mike Tyson has enjoyed quite the career resurgence since his retirement from professional boxing.

I have it on good authority that he put Mr. Dempsey to sleep one evening about fifteen years ago in an amateur boxing meet.

Hunting scenes, men boxing, and charioteers encouraging their horses, also occur.

They were subject to a system of athletic exercises, and engaged in contests of running, wrestling, and boxing.

Further, how should we distinguish the natural boxing ability from that which is scientifically acquired?

For the art of boxing implies a relation; all the knowledge it imparts is relative to something else.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boxing, such as: battle, mill, prelim, prizefighting, pugilism, and slugfest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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