Sentence examples for promoting fight from inspiring English sources

While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the film explored not taking one's aggressions out on someone else but to "have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end".

He said the F.B.I. case was dropped after a Korean boxer died in a title bout and the bureau feared that it was too risky for the F.B.I. to appear to be involved in promoting fights.

He is already banned from promoting fights in Atlantic City, since New Jersey has laws to suspend the license of any promoter under indictment.

Hertha had won 4-0 athehe rustic, deliberately unrefined home of SV Darmstadt 98, where Dieter Schuster's recently promoted fight club had taken great care to ruin the bumpy pitch altogether by training on it the night before.

Mr. King says he still wants to promote fights in Atlantic City, and he is being supported by Mayor Levy and Mr. Hazzard.

Still, Mr. King is not allowed to promote fights at the city's casinos because he has been refused a license.

The deal's most vocal critic was Lou DiBella, a Brooklyn native with a talent for obscenity, who has promoted fights locally for more than a decade.

Not long after he lost to Diaz in UFC 196, he announced his retirement, refused to promote fights and toyed with a bout against Floyd Mayweather.

Chris Dundee had promoted fights in Cuba before the revolution and his contacts meant that fighters kept showing up, pleading poverty at the turnstile and performing with flair inside the original gym's raised ring.

Unlike King, he does not promote fights himself but he has influence over those who do and has just launched a $20m £13.2mm) prime-time deal with NBC that marks the sport's regular return to network television.

In August it ran two hour-long shows on Fox Sports Net, which says the heavily promoted fights got a spike in viewership from the boxing show that normally ran in that slot.