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  • n  a fistfight
    the quarrel ended in a punch-up

  • The battle had been shaping up since Easter, when more than 1,000 members of Britain's rival teen cults threw a wild weekend punch-up at seaside Clacton.
  • The Passion punch-up broke out when Gibson's father Hutton, 85, a rabid Catholic traditionalist who writes treatises on the perceived lapses of Mother Church, denied the Nazi .
  • That much, at least, was made clear two days before the conference opened when Richard waded into what he called a "good verbal punch-up" with a member of an African nationalist .
News & Articles

  • Thai player attacks former partner in court brawl
    (Reuters) - Bodin Issara's on-court punch-up with his former doubles partner Maneepong Jongjit during Sunday's Canada Open final is being investigated by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). "The men's doubles final ended ... with a black card being issued to Thailand pair, Bodin Issara and Pakkawat Vilailak, who were disqualified," the BWF said in a statement on Monday. "The events surrounding ...
    July 22, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
  • Badminton-Thai player attacks former partner in court brawl
    July 22 (Reuters) - Bodin Issara's on-court punch-up with his former doubles partner Maneepong Jongjit during Sunday's Canada Open final is being investigated by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). "The men's doubles final ended ... with a black card being issued to Thailand pair, Bodin Issara and Pakkawat Vilailak, who were disqualified," the BWF said in a statement on Monday. "The events ...
    July 22, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Quotes

  • Matthew Hayden in The Age
    We allegedly had a punch-up, which is absolute, total fabrication,Hayden said on the Nine Network. "His decision really, just to go totally on his own and back away was an absolute cracker - something really unheralded in sport. Contrary...

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