Sentence examples for fight contested from inspiring English sources

This is unique in modern boxing, a fight contested and arranged by the antagonists, a throwback to the days when prize-fighters each raised a stake and battled for a winner-take-all purse.

The main event featured the UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre defending his championship against UFC Lightweight Champion B.J. Penn in a fight contested at the UFC welterweight limit of 170 pounds (77.1 kg).

"The Barbarian" will also have a more rounded skill set if the fight is contested on the feet, so using that to his advantage would be wise.

World Series, N.F.L. championships and championship fights were contested there, but perhaps nothing had as profound an effect on our society than the Negro leagues games.

The vast majority of fights are contested at this novice level, yet the studies presented by the AIBA and the preponderance of boxing-based research conversely focus on outcomes in elite male athletes.

Mr. Hersh's interpretation of the fight is sharply contested by General McCaffrey.

The new bill was the latest development in a hotly contested fight over rights for public sector workers that began in Ohio in early February.

Beyond these narrow analogies lies a broad lesson that Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush should learn from the past -- especially in a fight as closely contested as this one.

Despite a closely contested fight for the seat of Ashgrove with popular former environment minister Kate Jones, Newman swept the LNP to power in 2012, winning a stunning 78 of 89 seats, and reducing Labor to a rump of seven.

Bush won the Electoral College in 2000 thanks to winning a contested fight against Democratic nominee Al Gore in Florida when the Supreme Court stepped in to stop a recount ordered by state courts.

The fights, to be contested at the sold-out Prudential Center, will be shown on a big screen at Radio City.