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Meanings of prizefighting in English

Russian
профессиональный бокс
Spanish
boxeo profesional
Catalan
boxa professional

Full-contact combat sport.

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профессиональный бокс
Usage of prizefighting in English
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Some may like the nostalgic quality of prizefighting and its far reaching history.
The Guardian
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Outside of the prizefighting ring, violence made Mr. Levy ill.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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That was one round in a prizefighting ring.
Skin Game
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Lou Ambers was her star-lodger for years and was responsible for her entrance to the prizefighting business.
The new yorker
5
Vacationing in Canada, he met some prizefighting friends & thought about going back into the ring again.
The new yorker
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He had decided to try prizefighting because he was big and there seemed to be money in it.
The new yorker
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Why, prizefighting is less brutal.
A match made in texas
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He delivered a treatise on the art of prizefighting, and he did something else which I found more amusing-hetold me his name.
The Guilty River
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If no longer prizefighting was to be had, at least there were boxing competitions, so called, in dingy back parlours out Whitechapel way.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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Prizefighting-evenwith pillows, for points-isbad enough, no doubt; but there are worse things.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
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Prizefighting is a sport where there are no barriers between the fan and the athlete.
The Guardian
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"I hear they're nutty on prizefighting like in Tahiti, and I'll teach 'em boxing," he explained.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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"Okay, enough prizefighting," Malone said.
The charlemagne pursuit
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Some may like the nostalgic quality of prizefighting and its far reaching history.
The Guardian
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Outside of the prizefighting ring, violence made Mr. Levy ill.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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That was one round in a prizefighting ring.
Skin Game
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