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prize fight
noun as in boxing match
Example Sentences
The audience surrounds the playing area as though witnessing a prize fight or highly athletic dance piece.
M. Christie hoped to confront Mr. Trump in the first debate, framing the showdown as a must-watch prize fight.
“Each time we went out to do a number and a concert, it was like doing a round in a prize fight,” Robertson says in the film.
But the historically and sportingly accurate depiction of a prize fight that ended with a man’s death has an unsettling quality all its own.
The flurry of a finish started off more like a prize fight, each team taking its turn landing blows in a game of wild swings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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