prizefighting

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Prizefighting is what every boxer, male and female alike, aspires to.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2012

Prizefighting was so impressive in victory on his debut at Kempton last October that he was pitched into Group One company six days later at Saint-Cloud.

From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2010

Prizefighting was made illegal in New York State in 1900.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prizefighting, though often connived at, was never legal.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard