I said as we got to within two miles of my first fistic encounter.

But he could make the average man very sick indeed in a fistic encounter.

These are heady days for the Hat, as he is called, among other things, in fistic circles.

He projected that the fight would be brutally short, a fistic haiku.

During his fistic career he compiled 91 victories, 27 defeats and seven draws.

But the boxer I saw was a fistic Mozart.

It was a brutal, fistic dance late in the third period, after the Devils got their third goal.

But last night a Vegas verdict created the most controversial finish in the fistic history of this neon oasis.

Domi agreed that Vukota probably wasn't bragging about his fistic prowess.

His fistic career covered the years from 1855-1864, with most of his fights taking place in England before he came to America.

And one ruler over that fistic domain makes it neat and tidy and significant.

No, not violence in hockey, when two tough guys go toe to toe in a fistic fracas.

Wedge had a "fistic encounter" with a lawyer named Rose, whom Wedge whipped in the public street.

At present, however, it bore a flattened look - an indication that its wearer had suffered from punches dealt in fistic combat.

Although Kocur got penalized for roughing Hunter, the retaliation was not the fistic sort of a regular-season game.

Excuse-maker and fistic faker.

(76) Joe Louis, destroying every fistic pretender who dared cross gloves with him, was a gladiator never to be forgotten.

He began his fistic career in unsanctioned fights at the Sailor's Home, where naval men bet on these fights.

While many fighters pressure their children, particularly their namesakes, into following their fistic footsteps, Ravelo doesn't want that for his son.

Arthur Hailey's 10th novel is a literary example of an old boxing adage: if you don't have the fistic power, dazzle them with footwork.

Loughran even achieved a Newspaper Decision over fistic phenom Harry Greb.

He once, back in the spring of about 1911, scored a memorable and convincing fistic victory over the late John Joseph McGraw.

To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.

Advertised as "The Preacher and the Puncher," it has all the cauliflower earmarks of a fistic farce.

For these three fistic frauds, Tyson collected $65 million, which works out to more than $64,000 a second for his total ring time of 16 minutes 51 seconds.