Hitting below the belt may be cathartic for a dispirited base, but I'm more interested in victory than catharsis.
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The message behind the transition was implicit: Why stoop to hitting below the belt when she was perfectly capable of dropping men right on their heads?
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The attacks were praised by progressives eager to see Biden taken down, but many Democrats viewed the attacks as nasty, unnecessary and hitting below the belt.
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Talk about hitting below the belt ... UFC superstar Michael Bisping is ripping into Anderson Silva -- claiming the guy's history of PED usage left him with a wonky penis ... and Bisping's not afraid to mock him for it.
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Also known as "hitting below the belt". AHDI cites this usage to about 1950. See hit below the belt, above.
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His defenders asserted that Mordecai Richler may have been wrong on certain specific points, but was certainly not racist or anti-Québécois."Hitting below the belt.", By: Barbara Amiel, Maclean's, August 13, 2001, Vol. 114, Issue 33 Nadia Khouri acclaimed Richler for his courage and for attacking the orthodoxies of Quebec society.
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After counting the referee will observe the fighter, and decide if he or she is fit to continue. For scoring purposes, a standing eight count is treated as a knockdown. Ingemar Johansson of Sweden KO's heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, 26 June 1959. In general, boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, or spitting.
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"All that fat boy had done was run like a thief- hit me with a peck and backpedal like crazy." Joe would remark. Mathis had worn his trunks very high, so that when Joe hit Mathis with legitimate body shots, the referee took a dim view of them. In the second round, the referee had gone so far as to penalize Joe two points for hitting below the belt.
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Boxers are prohibited from hitting below the belt, holding, tripping, pushing, biting, spitting on or wrestling their opponent. Boxers typically wear shorts or trunks with the waistband raised so the opponent is not allowed to strike the groin area. They also are prohibited from kicking, head-butting, or striking with any part of the arm other than the knuckles of a closed fist. They are prohibited as well from hitting the back, the back of the head/neck (commonly called a “rabbit-punch”), or the kidneys.
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After the death of Brighton Bill in 1838, which had been preceded by the death of two other of Swift's opponents, a major revision in the rules of boxing was eventually made. The London Prize Ring Rules were introduced by the Pugilists's Protective Association and replaced Broughton's rules of 1743. There were 29 rules, built on Broughton's rules, but with more depth and detail. These rules more clearly defined the range of fouls and introduced certain safety measures, making head butting, gouging, hitting below the belt, and hitting a man when he was down fouls.
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