prizefighters

Sometimes, when in the newspapers I happen upon descriptions of our modern bruisers and prizefighters, I wonder what chance the best of them would have had against him.

CHAPTER V 2010

And then to Saxon came a wicked little hope that by the mysterious and unthinkable ability that prizefighters possessed,

CHAPTER VII 2010

I've never forgotten what you told me about how prizefighters lose their silk.

CHAPTER VII 2010

Jimmy Botts, Jean Choyinsky, and the rest of the lads that went out over the world to glory and cash a few years later, a generation of prizefighters that only

CHAPTER IV 2010

Jonathon Ziegler/PatrickMcMullan Dick Cashin and Frauke Schaeffer "We were back there like prizefighters chomping at the bit," said Mr. Marsalis, the organization's artistic director, of the energy backstage.

When Jazz Meets the Blues 2011

Mahut and Isner are? like Ali and Frazier, and like long-ago brutish prizefighters? eternally entwined now, whether they like it or not.

Nicolas Mahut and John Isner at Wimbledon: two bareknuckle pugilists Kevin Mitchell at Wimbledon 2010

Unlike other outspoken prizefighters, Haye understands the difficulties a move into mixed martial arts would entail and would, presumably, not enter competition lightly.

Elliot Worsell: Boxers Who Might Win a Fight in UFC 2010

But Bronfman had always spoken with more eloquence than most high school dropouts, just as he had always been more combative than most prizefighters and cockier than most roosters.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Over one of the booths is the now iconic Halsband photo of Jean-Michel and Warhol posed as prizefighters: feisty outsiders who both slugged their way to art world fame.

John Seed: Driving Mr. Basquiat 2010

Over one of the booths is the now iconic Halsband photo of Jean-Michel and Warhol posed as prizefighters: feisty outsiders who both slugged their way to art world fame.

John Seed: Driving Mr. Basquiat 2010