prize fighting

Gambling and prize fighting were two popular past times.

The ethic in prize fighting at that time was brutally primitive.

Prize fighting was illegal at the time, so they were conducted clandestinely.

The term "ring" has come to be used as a metaphor for many aspects of prize fighting in general.

Any audience, save a prize fighting one, would have exhausted its emotions in that first minute.

Brownsville Road became a route out of the city for amusement and entertainment, including prize fighting.

This includes alcohol abuse and tobacco, gambling and prize fighting.

Baird was spending less time on horse racing and more on prize fighting.

Prize fighting was illegal in Indiana, and protesters demanded that the governor shut down the match.

Prize fighting was said to have taken place at Three Shires Head.

The stories included issues such as bare-knuckle prize fighting, spiritualism and Irish terrorism.

Horse racing and prize fighting were common entertainments.

Matthews had advocated in the campaign the banning of horse racing and prize fighting in the state.

This section defines "prized fighting" as the following:

This proved to be difficult, and he took other odd jobs, including cattle punching, gold mining and prize fighting.

The judge ruled that prize fighting was illegal in San Francisco and the courts would not determine who the real winner was.

Baird became interested in prize fighting after seeing bouts at a hostelry in Newmarket.

None of the nine characters in his latest work, a deliberately listless story of amateur prize fighting, have anything remotely fresh to say.

Prize fighting For the first time in modern British wrestling, fans were given the opportunity to make voluntary donations for match of the night.

He despised prize fighting.

If there wasn't prize fighting, he'd be in trouble, because he'd be fighting anyway."

However, popular sentiment shifted away from various blood sports and both bull fighting and prize fighting were banned by the Texas legislature in 1891.

Poisonville's prize fighting was done in a big wooden ex-casino in what had once been an amusement park on the edge of town.

Under Doc's leadership, the Air Cav troop quickly became one of the regiment's prized fighting forces.