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  • adjective Occurring before a fight.

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pre- +‎ fight

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Examples

  • The dispute centers around Mr. Mayweather's demands for rigorous prefight drug testing and perhaps an apres-fight lasagna dinner at his house.

    An Athlete Who Deserves His Due 2010

  • Proving a woman boxer can still be a lady, @MaureenShea tweets about her prefight manicure and pedicure.

    Terry Gardner: Top Ten: Women Warriors of Twitter 2009

  • Sanctioning fees have to be paid to each organization and prefight approval obtained before they consider it to be a title bout for their particular title.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • It took a long time to get all the prefight formalities out of the way in the crowded ring, but eventually everyone was cleared out and we got going.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • We spoke on the air ringside a few minutes after the fight ended and he said, I must say, my young friend, you had the opponent absolutely cased, just as you described it in the prefight interview.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • The morning of the weigh-ins, I did my last prefight interview, with Maxim Radio, then headed down to the arena and jumped on the scales to see where I was at.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

  • We spoke on the air ringside a few minutes after the fight ended and he said, I must say, my young friend, you had the opponent absolutely cased, just as you described it in the prefight interview.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • Tell you the truth, we watched it about twenty times, with a lot of whooping and hollering, because two minutes into the first round Howard said on the air, Only thing that troubled me about what Holyfield said in the prefight interview was that he was looking to put him out early.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • Sanctioning fees have to be paid to each organization and prefight approval obtained before they consider it to be a title bout for their particular title.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • The morning of the weigh-ins, I did my last prefight interview, with Maxim Radio, then headed down to the arena and jumped on the scales to see where I was at.

    Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008

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