Boxing and Wrestling

See Also: SPORTS

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There’s got to be good guys and there’s got to be bad guys. What people pay for is to see the bad guys get beat —Sonny Liston, quoted from his obituary, New York Times
Fell on his face, kicking and heaving like a wounded leopard —Gerald Kersh
Fired himself across the ring like a stone from a catapult —Gerald Kersh
Got up the third time with blood like a livid splash of ripe fruit all over his face —H. E. Bates
He (Joe Louis) punches like he had a baseball bat in his both hands —Irwin Shaw
His nostrils [Joe Louis’], like the mouth of a double-barreled shotgun, took a quiet lead and let him have both barrels —Bob Considine, International News Service report on Louis-Schmeling fight, June 22, 1938
(Sharkey) kept coming in like the surf —Anon comment about the 1899 Jeffries-Sharkey fight
Their long, stiff jabs made their gloves dip and seem heavy, like big red balloons —Richard Ford
They clung together, spinning round and round like two twigs in a whirlpool —Gerald Kersh
Went down like a letter in a mail chute —Anon
When he (Jake La Motta) was in the ring, it was like he was in a cage fighting for his life —Ray Arcel, boxing trainer, quoted in Ira Berkow’s Sports of the Times column, New York Times
Wrestled together, interlaced like snakes —Honoré de Balzac

单词	boxing and wrestling
释义	Boxing and Wrestling Boxing and Wrestling See Also: SPORTS A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There’s got to be good guys and there’s got to be bad guys. What people pay for is to see the bad guys get beat —Sonny Liston, quoted from his obituary, New York Times Fell on his face, kicking and heaving like a wounded leopard —Gerald Kersh Fired himself across the ring like a stone from a catapult —Gerald Kersh Got up the third time with blood like a livid splash of ripe fruit all over his face —H. E. Bates He (Joe Louis) punches like he had a baseball bat in his both hands —Irwin Shaw His nostrils [Joe Louis’], like the mouth of a double-barreled shotgun, took a quiet lead and let him have both barrels —Bob Considine, International News Service report on Louis-Schmeling fight, June 22, 1938 (Sharkey) kept coming in like the surf —Anon comment about the 1899 Jeffries-Sharkey fight Their long, stiff jabs made their gloves dip and seem heavy, like big red balloons —Richard Ford They clung together, spinning round and round like two twigs in a whirlpool —Gerald Kersh Went down like a letter in a mail chute —Anon When he (Jake La Motta) was in the ring, it was like he was in a cage fighting for his life —Ray Arcel, boxing trainer, quoted in Ira Berkow’s Sports of the Times column, New York Times Wrestled together, interlaced like snakes —Honoré de Balzac
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