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Professional boxing, or
prizefighting, is regulated,
sanctioned boxing.
Professional boxing bouts are
fought for a
purse that is
divided between the boxers...
- Look up
prizefighter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
prizefighter is
someone who
competes in a
contest between fighters for a prize, a sum of money...
- The
Prizefighter series was a
professional boxing tournament created by
boxing promoter Barry Hearn and
aired on Sky Sports. The
format has an initial...
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California that
Morrissey appeared for the
first time in a
professional prizefighting ring. On
August 31, 1852, he
defeated George Thompson at Mare Island...
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article by
adding secondary or
tertiary sources. Find sources: "
Prizefight Boxing" – news · newspapers · books · scholar ·
JSTOR (August 2007) (Learn...
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There are many
prizefighters with both
professional boxing records and
professional kickboxing records, including:
Dennis Alexio Christopher Algieri Hiromi...
- The
Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
romance film
directed by
Howard Hawks and W. S. Van ****
starring Myrna Loy and the...
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boxing or
prizefighting was
primarily a
sport of
dubious legitimacy.
Outlawed in
England and much of the
United States,
prizefights were
often held...
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boxing immensely among the
female audience. He did so in an era in
which prizefighting was
illegal in 21
states and was
still considered among the most infamous...
- The bout with
Heenan was Sayers' last
prizefight. However, he made one last
appearance in the
prizefighting ring, when on 10
December 1863, he was one...
