Sentence examples for before the champ from inspiring English sources

Kearns (not a doctor, obviously, but a skilled alchemist in turning bluster into gold) famously bankrupted an entire town when he staged Jack Dempsey's world heavyweight title against Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana – not long before the champ cottoned on to the fact his mentor was skinning him alive.

They need a replacement -- fast -- and the unknown Rocky is suddenly shoved into the spotlight with the chance of a lifetime: he's guaranteed a huge purse and, who knows, maybe he'll get in a few good licks before the champ grinds him into the ground.

A homemade rocket fizzled and burst on the street with a crack, but though the same thing had caused a panicked stampede a few days before, on the Champ de Mars at a screening of the France-Germany Euro Cup match, nobody moved.

"I wasn't the only one dropped on that mid-stage climb, there were about 80 others and there's still plenty of sprints left before the Champs Elysées," Cavendish told reporters.

Here, Kisenosato escaped an attempted headlock from an impatient Asa before knocking the champ off balance and hurling him from the ring.

The C.A.R.T. series declared bankruptcy in 2003, before being resurrected as the Champ Car series.

Why did you have an egg?↩. 3. Three eggs suggests a man who does not trust his own aim and things he needs three shots at the champ before he lands one.

She's got a while before she catches up with the champ though – Maria Carey, who has spent 79 weeks at No 1.

But especially after he retired from the ring, Tunney sought the company of writers and educators and also became friendly with Thornton Wilder, the British novelist Hugh Walpole and Ernest Hemingway, who once got carried away and in a Mailer-esque moment shot his elbow into the champ's mouth before Tunney flattened him against a wall.

Like more traditional boxing movies before it -- "The Champ," with Wallace Beery, "Champion," with Kirk Douglas, or 'Raging Bull" and "Rocky" -- "Girlfight" is about "an outsider who enters a world where she does not belong and finds a place for herself," Ms. Kusama said.

Casey went with "The Champ," and he found one positive to the week before he even collected his trophy.