Sentence examples for a black boxer from inspiring English sources

"I told the management that I was going to do a story about a black boxer and they were horrified.

That early effort to amend the Constitution arose after a black boxer, Jack Johnson, ostentatiously consorted with white women.

On the wall across from the bar, there's a framed photograph of a black boxer slugging a white boxer, his silvery trunks pulled up high.

Joining him are a blue blood (Tyler Labine), a black boxer (Abdul Salis), a screw-up (David Ellison and Jean Renoo as a French captain, hamming it up like a supersized croque monsieur.

Another is about Emile Griffith, a black boxer in the late 50s, early 60s – he became the welterweight world champion but was living this extraordinary double life between the ring and the underground gay scene around Times Square.

The brashness of Jack Johnson, a black boxer in the early 20th century, could have gotten him lynched — and, in fact, got him jailed, for having a romantic relationship with a white woman.

Holyfield removed his headphones and began reminiscing about some of his more pedestrian struggles, as a young black boxer coming of age in the wake of the "Rocky" franchise.

Writer-director Dan Turner's thriller is a stolid, flashily edited slice of contemporary British life turning on the relationship between a handsome black boxer (Ashley "Bashy" Thomas) and his tough Scottish trainer's drug-addicted daughter (Michelle Ryan).

Sam Langford, an outstanding black boxer in the early 1900s, used to swear: "You can sweat out beer and you can sweat out whiskey.

I don't know if it was connected but soon afterwards my dad began to show me tapes of a charismatic, handsome black boxer from America, a proto rapper who spat rhymes and cracked jokes, who drove a pink Cadillac, who stood up for his people and his convictions, all the while dancing on the canvas like no one before and no one to come.

In the Seventies, he hit a second stride with Blood on the Tracks and Desire, the first charting the end of his marriage, the latter returning to his early embrace of public political controversy with "Hurricane," about a wrongly -accused black boxer.