Word: prefight
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...bouts were limited to five three-minute rounds, and some basic rules were established (no biting, gouging, or kicking a man who was down). Today the sport is controlled by the national police department, and Thailand supports some 500 professional fighters. Buddhist bonzes (priests) box for exercise, and the prefight prayer is an important ritual...
...sure of anything, Champion Roosevelt could count on the National Association of Postmasters being in his corner a year from November. It was a routine prefight precaution for Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, onetime chairman of New York State's Athletic Commission, to appear before the postmasters' Chicago convention last week and assure those loyal jobholders that slurs from the Republican camp against their man were "just plain politics...
...scribe on the Tunney-Muldoon trophy which indicates the championship of the world. But Herr Schmeling, who is as soft-spoken as Tunney and as agreeable as Carpentier, would not object to his three middle names being left out. He it was about whom the long, loud, prefight ballyhoo was mostly centred last week, for he it is who is dempseyesque...
Prize fighting is popular because, watching it, civilized people are vicariously purged of their primitive inclinations. Another need that it satisfies becomes evident, not only in the prefight betting, but in the event the outcome is disputable. Onlookers can then enter actual combat, with their opinions. In the Stone Age, a fight was simply a fight, with no nonphysical exchanges before or after. Today a fight stimulates the popular art of debate. Psychologically speaking, the meeting of the country's two second-best physical fighters last week in the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, was one of the most successful affairs...