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A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money)..
“Regrettable though it may be, fighting is a basic human interest and previous attempts to outlaw professional boxers in other countries have failed to stamp out illegal prizefights,” the paper said in an editorial.
At its heart, the story is fairly familiar from prizefight fiction, one of betrayal - and self-betrayal - in which a once-promising athlete confronts his failure.
Use prize fight when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prize fight means A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money)..
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“Regrettable though it may be, fighting is a basic human interest and previous attempts to outlaw professional boxers in other countries have failed to stamp out illegal prizefights,” the paper said in an editorial.
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