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I saw the Mosquera fight, and though the fight was a give-and-take affair, Valero came through with flying colors, in my opinion: he showed power, of course, but also resiliency and stamina, as well as a surprising amount of craftiness.

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  1. intransitive verb To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.
  2. intransitive verb Sports To engage in boxing or wrestling.
  3. intransitive verb To engage in a quarrel; argue: They are always fighting about money.
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  • "The intensity for this fight is the same as for the Oscar de la Hoya fight (which was last December)," he said. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • As most of you know, this fight is the 1st exciting Heavyweight title fight to come along in Years. —  BoxingScene.com
  • You start releasing chemicals to prime the body for action, what we know as the fight-or-flight response. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I saw the Mosquera fight, and though the fight was a give-and-take affair, Valero came through with flying colors, in my opinion: he showed power, of course, but also resiliency and stamina, as well as a surprising amount of craftiness. —  East Side Boxing
  • But the fight is about to get tough, with just days to go all the diplomatic niceties will be pushed aside as the fight begins for every last vote.
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  1. Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan, fihtan.

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  1. from Middle English fighten, fihten, fehten, etc., from Anglo-Saxon feohtan (preterit feaht, plural fuhton, past participle fohten) = OFries. fiuchta = D. Middle Low German vechten = Old High German fehtan, Middle High German vehten, German fechten (later Norwegian fikta = Swedish fäkta = Danish fægte), fight. On the supposition that the radical vowel of the infinitive was orig. u (as in preterit and plural) and not e (eo), i. e., that the Gothic (Moesogothic) form, which is not recorded, was *fiuhtan, a connection has been sought with L. pugnare, fight, Greek πυκτεύειν, fight, box, from πύκτης, a boxer; a similar connection then existing between L. pugna, Greek πνγμή, fist, and English fist, Gothic (Moesogothic) as if *fuhsti: see pugnacious and fist .
  2. from Middle English fight, fiht, feht, feoht, etc., from Anglo-Saxon feoht, commonly ge-feoht, also feohte, a fight, battle, = Old Saxon fehta = OFries. fiucht = Dutch gevecht = Middle Low German vacht, vachte, vechte = Old High German fehta, Middle High German vehte, German gefecht, a fight; from the verb.
 

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