NOUN
- a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
VERB
- box for a prize or money
How To Use prizefight In A Sentence
- The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
- (such as prizefighter we have in England) and more competitive fights. Main Features
- He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's (1907; Cleveland, Mus. of Art), a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight.
- 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.
- Backstage, he would be like a prizefighter waiting to get out there. Times, Sunday Times
- The most important prizefight in boxing's history would take place on Boxing's biggest stage - Madison Square Garden.
- Injuries contributed to a less-than-stellar career as a prizefighter. Houston Chronicle
- At home he exercised on a trampoline and chinning bar and did roadwork like a prizefighter.
- Last night nearly 5,000 people in Cardiff witnessed a massacre and not a prizefight.
- Injuries contributed to a less-than-stellar career as a prizefighter. Houston Chronicle
