prize-fights

We had bull-baitings, and badger-drawings, and hustings, and prize-fights, and cock-fights; we went to see men hanged; the pillory and the stocks were no empty “terrors unto evil-doers,” for there was commonly a malefactor occupying each of these institutions.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

I never could see anything wrong about prize-fights.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

I never could see anything wrong about prize-fights.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The stories he had heard of men being killed in prize-fights rose up horribly before him.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Beside the telecast show which Diamond was watching at the moment, that included prize-fights, nightclubs, prostitution and, without doubt, dope.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

But England is the land of prize-fights, of scientific brutality, which has flourished under the patronage of her hereditary legislators and other "Corinthian" supporters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

It consisted of 'Sketches of Modern Pugilism', giving memoirs and portraits of all the most celebrated pugilists, contemporary and antecedent, with full reports of their respective prize-fights, victories, and defeats, told with so much spirited humour, yet with such close attention to accuracy, that the work holds a unique position.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

I have seen several of these prize-fights and many private bouts, all with gloves.

As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

Betterton and the rest on the stage, and the ladies and gentlemen in the front or side boxes; we see Pinkethman's players at Greenwich, Powell's puppet-show, Don Saltero's Museum at Chelsea, and the bear-baiting and prize-fights at Hockley-in-the-Hole.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

P.S. -- I am glad that you don't publish prize-fights.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various