Sentence examples for given the champ from inspiring English sources

I couldn't afford just a moral victory, of having given the champ a decent fight.

Mann tries something similar in Ali: giving the champ a tense in-car encounter with Smokin' Joe Frazier.

"My brother had no fear," she said, "so when it came to fighting Holmes, he always looked back and thought that he gave the champ a little too much respect that night".

What sets this year apart is the presence of two challengers who gave the champ all he wanted at Churchill Downs.

It's clear the succour that scramble on 1 has given the Masters champ, because he's been brilliant since then.

By now a new generation of British super-middleweights, led by George Groves and James DeGale, were charging through the ranks and Groves' victory over DeGale demanded that he be given the shot at the champ.

And now the green light has been given, the client is champing at the bit to get going.

Given the cobbles on the Champs, it will be dire if it rains.

First, the Giants gave the defending champs all they could handle, succumbing only after Rodgers' final-minute heroics lifted the Packers to a 38-35 triumph.

Villa scored off his own rebound in the 63rd minute, giving the European champs a 1-0 vicTuesdayesday that put them into the World Cup quarterfinals.

"The Champs-Élysées is many different things at the same time," said Mr. Reinhardt, who used to run Virgin stores here (also on the Champs-Élysées, but given the costly rents and the state of the music business, probably not for long).