prizefight

IPA: prˈaɪzfaɪt

A professional boxing match, in which two boxers compete for a prize (usually money).

Examples of "prizefight" in Sentences

He also admitted he'd attended one "prizefight" in his life - presumably not in the era when such a term was widely used.
Jack Johnson was so impressed by Gans's swinging joint that he used his own prizefight earnings to start the Cotton Club.
Sun minimized some of the "gifts" itemized in the government's case, such as prizefight tickets and World Series luxury box seats.
The prizefight has been presented, entertainingly, in the usual terms – of highbrow versus lowbrow culture, of pompous literary elites against good, old-fashioned readers.
Spokespeople for the campaigns who appeared on television after the debate offered a different view, insisting their candidate had clearly routed the other, and had it been a prizefight, it would have been stopped by the referee in the early rounds.
Throughout the week, a great number of teams who didn't get to grace the finals stage - including the teams from New York's Louder Arts and St. Paul's Soapboxing slams highlighted in a story that aired on WBUR-FM -- delivered generally well-wrought and decidedly practiced work in more confined, sold-out venues, combining the intimacy of theater with the intensity of prizefight.