Definition of prizefight
: a professional boxing match
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The 35,000-seat horseshoe saw decades of high school football on fall Fridays, college football on Saturdays, occasional NFL games, rodeos, dirt-track auto racing, circuses, prizefights, Easter sunrise services and music.
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Bevin bells open and close the New York Stock Exchange, mark rounds at prizefights and call kids to ice cream trucks.
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Capturing the ferocity and grace of a prizefight in the theater is a monumental challenge, says director Robert Barry Fleming.
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Only one thing besides injury could have derailed this prizefight.
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Yet on Saturday, Glendale's favorite boxing son will find himself in the biggest prizefight of his career.
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That Saturday night, the charismatic, if profane, fighter from Ireland captivated a boisterous crowd at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the site of some of the most legendary prizefights of all-time.
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From there, the game turned into a back-and-forth prizefight: Kansas scored 10 straight, West Virginia answered with eight in a row, and the Jayhawks responded with 10 more.
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From there, the game turned into a back-and-forth prizefight: Kansas scored 10 straight, West Virginia answered with eight in a row and the Jayhawks responded with 10 more.
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First Known Use of prizefight
1929
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Definition of prizefight for English Language Learners
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: a fight between two professional boxers for money
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