| In its heyday, boxing was known as prizefighting, a sporting event that is rich in history and culture. |
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| If his radical Professional Boxing Act becomes law, it could significantly alter how prizefighting is conducted around the world. |
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| The government's task was made more difficult by the fact that wealthy and influential colonists were among the most devoted followers of prizefighting. |
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| But prizefighting was not, in fact, a major avenue of social mobility. |
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| The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry. |
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| There is prizefighting and now throughout the United States there is this type of extreme fighting where violence is involved, of course, but also bets and so forth. |
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| I will address those more extensively and perhaps go back to the prizefighting issue as well either tomorrow or the next day when this bill comes before the House again. |
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| Jerome Shochet, who usually deals in prizefighting memorabilia, has been collecting in a special category of historical photographs — examples that have been signed by the subjects themselves. |
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| The subject collection could range from fields as sweeping as classics or American literature to books on chess, coffee, prizefighting, detective fiction, or the development of nuclear energy. |
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| At 33, Bob Buzzell decided to retire from prizefighting. |
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| Through the late nineteenth century, the martial art of boxing or prizefighting was primarily a sport of dubious legitimacy. |
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| It became as famous in its orbit as Stillman's Gym was in prizefighting. |
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