Sentence examples for unknown fighter from inspiring English sources

When the opponent of undefeated heavyweight champion Apollo Creed is injured, Creed comes up with the idea of fighting a local Philadelphia underdog and, because he likes Rocky's nickname, "The Italian Stallion," he selects the unknown fighter.

Mr Hearn's "Prizefighter" series on Sky, a satellite television service, began in Britain in 2008 and pits eight largely unknown fighters against one another in three-round matches.

The proposed method is applied to fault prediction of model-unknown fighter F-8II of China airforce and the simulation results show that the proposed method can not only predict the fault, but has strong robustness against uncertainties and external disturbances.

"They have to have this quality that people say, 'I want to look like that.' " They have to possess something of the brooding beauty that led Mr. Zucchelli to cast a pudgy and unknown cage fighter from Kentucky for his 2008 show.

Later that year, however, White's poor assessment of Slice gained traction beyond just a jealous dismissal when unknown replacement fighter Seth Petruzelli knocked out Slice 14 seconds into the first round.

For the past three weeks, with Gaddafi's whereabouts still unknown, government fighters had been puzzled by the bitter and determined resistance from loyalist fighters.

But he is more in ultimate underdog territory, with the Ali figure giving this unknown pug club fighter the fight as a shrewd populist promotional move.

Personnel files from Isis appear to reveal the names of a number of previously unknown British foreign fighters who have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamist terror group.

Following an early morning operation in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraqi state television said that army troops had regained control of the Salahuddin provincial headquarters building and killed an unknown number of fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Al Qaeda splinter group that seized the city June 11.

The whereabouts of this fighter are unknown.

Leading figures in the field of counter-terrorism said it would be possible for intelligence services to identify the militant, despite it being filmed in an unknown location with the fighter dressed head to toe in black.