Brawl
Wrestling
Wrestling noun - The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
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Brawl and wrestling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brawl" instead a verb "Wrestling".
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Rex and Spot then went down to Memphis, where they became pioneers of hardcore wrestling, with one wild, vicious brawl after another.
Source: Wrestling / The Moondogs - To this day, wrestlers with experience in Japan will often do a token wrestling sequence to start the match off, which is really out of place when the rest of the match is a wild brawl.
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However, the match itself, while certainly a real brawl in-universe, is choreographed like a professional wrestling bout, with the wrestler hitting all sort of "worked" moves and even receiving a chair shot from a cornerman.
Source: Film / Rocky III
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