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Example sentences for: boxing

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This creates an interesting moral dilemma for Tyson, boxing officials, and the public.
USAT , the NYT , the WP , and the LAT each give above-the-fold coverage to yesterday's decision by Nevada boxing authorities to fine Mike Tyson nearly $3 million and to revoke his boxing license for at least one year as punishment for biting Evander Holyfield on both ears during their championship fight last week.
Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
The editor of The New Yorker takes on one of the most written-about sports figures in American history and "succeeds, more than any previous book, in bringing Ali into focus" (Allen Barra, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics lavish praise on Remnick, not just for his analysis of Ali but because he is said to have brilliantly invoked the complex intersection of boxing and race relations in the 1960s.
A NYT piece reports that a 5 feet, 5 inches, 125-pound woman hopes to strike a blow for feminism by fighting a male lightweight in boxing's officially sanctioned first intergender bout.