Sentences with phrase «underground fighting»

For her large - scale sculpture Endless Arena (2009 — 12), she extensively researched the murky world of underground fighting.

Surely, underground fighting took place, but this was only a small percentage of pits.

Surely, underground fighting must have taken place, but it seemed this was a rather small percentage.

Animal Control also believes that underground fighting rings are organized locally, usually in connection with gangs or drug - dealers, but officials are not sure where.

The next day we were moved by a speech by the local commander of the Hagana, the Jewish underground fighting the British occupation, who led us in taking an oath: «Never again will we go like lambs to the slaughter!»

Whether competing in underground fighting arenas, backyard brawls, or the glitz and glamor of an official WRB ring, it's clear that Levy wanted the robots to flesh out this near - future world - not just beat each other into nuts and bolts.

At his new high school, a rebellious teen Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight, where he finds a mentor in a mixed martial arts veteran.

There are solid supporting turns from Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, and Zoe Saldana, but Cooper doesn't trust his characters enough, and is too enamored with his own sordid backdrop of underground fighting rings and hair - trigger violence.

Two brothers own an underground fighting ring in Bangkok.

After my first fight at the New York Gloves, literally the next week, I was partying and got invited to do this underground fighting.

But what it got me was the underground fights back several years ago.

Continuing underground fights and hosting them.

I'm sitting here talking to you because I've won a helluva lot of underground fights.

As we walk up the stairs the gym's owner, Joey «the Soho Kid» Goodwin — who has fought a couple underground fights himself — greets Charlie and introduces himself to me.

Albany may decide on three elections next year as an underground fight continues over the dates for a primary election.

Running an underground fight club, Brad Pitt was in the...

Sometimes you might get kidnapped and be forced to do battle in an underground fight club, thus cutting out precious gym time.

When what's supposed to be a staged, interactive kidnapping mystery turns into the real thing, the gang finds themselves dodging bullets and infiltrating an underground fight club.

They come across an underground fight club run by wealthy, amoral elites (resulting in a game of catch, played out as a fake one - take that doesn't favor the technical flash over the jokes).

Outside the main story, there are over one hundred side - events available ranging from street races to police busts and underground fight clubs.

A simple murder mystery game quickly leads to a kidnapping, a heist to break into a safe and even the discovery of an underground fight club.

By the time the three couples — Ryan has brought along co-worker Sarah (Sharon Horgan, «Catastrophe»), under the impression that all British people are automatically smart — figure out that (dun dun dun) the game is real, they're immersed in a world of actual guns (and gun wounds), underground fight clubs, smuggled intel, and long - buried secrets involving sex with celebrities.

Michael persuades Katherine to take him on as her manager, but while victory is sweet for a while, it doesn't take long for his old enemies to catch up with him, and soon Michael and Katherine have to deal with Clark (Kurt Hanover), an underground fight promoter who has a score to settle with Michael.

Sure, there are no serial killers or underground fight clubs, but The Social Network is Fincher through and through.

Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded buddy teams.

«Street Warrior»: War vet returns home to battle corruption and take part in an underground fight club; with Max Martini of TV's «The Unit.»

A young martial artist must compete in an underground fight club to protect his way of life.

Literally, as it looks like Jason has spent the last decade in underground fight clubs.

After attracting the attention of wealthy businessman Donaka Mark (Keanu Reeves), Chen is offered the chance to compete in an underground fight club with the promise of making enough money to save his temple.

He calls himself «the Butcher» when he shows up at an underground fight club in an elaborate ruse to catch the attention of his first victim.

While you are there, expect to encounter underground fight clubs as well as black magic cults to infiltrate, and ancient artifacts to retrieve, helping you to eventually kill The Outsider — your target.

As you play the game the map slowly opens up with new locations that offer more options, like taking part in those aforementioned underground fights or hanging out with friends or even pursuing a potential love interest, although even she boils down to getting a stat boost that proves useful when training.

Though it would be cool to take on the man who conquered the Undertaker's undefeated streak at Wrestlemania 30 in a bout of fisty cuffs in an underground fight club.

Not exact matches

The first would be Michael Vick, who was convicted in 2007 for his role in an underground dog - fighting ring.)

Readers of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND know that I don't believe in fighting market action.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

As the opening bell tolls to the first of three one - minute rounds — it's model - boxing after all — my first «underground» event, more or less billed as New York's answer to Fight Club, sure feels a whole helluva lot closer to Zoolander.

I almost forgot the early ufc days it was such an underground thing and you are spot on it was one style of fighting against another and guys like gracie did much better (i think gracie won the first ufc tournie) but man my memory isnt good although i do seem to remember the guys with ground games like gracie were more successful

This time, the museum hopes to win the hearts of nearby residents, who fought an earlier proposal for the site, by occupying less park space and building farther underground, said Ald.

The campaign also launched web pages and online action groups to fight the underground, e-mail whisper campaigns and robo - calls that surfaced in battleground states.

Over the years, Simon has been at the forefront of many fights, including the effort to get the New York state Department of Transportation (DOT) to tear down the elevated Gowanus Expressway and replace it with an underground tunnel.

As Younes learns at a meeting of the mosque's underground Resistance, these young North Africans want to destroy fascism and fight for equality, with the hope that when victory comes, they too will be able to secure independence from their colonial oppressors.

But the underground anti-war paper the Tribunal had 100,000 subscribers in 1916, while over 16,000 people refused to fight on grounds of conscience.

Opponents of a proposed underground gas storage facility near Seneca Lake are ramping up for a legal fight as a decision on the project nears.

After 20 years of research and almost as many years fighting industry groups in court for control of their data, government scientists can finally publish two papers showing that underground miners exposed to diesel fumes have a threefold increased risk for contracting lung cancer.

Charlie is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.

An entire underground -LCB- Dumbledore's -RCB- army of Hogwarts students believes he can and are willing to put their lives on the line, not only to protect Harry, but to fight back against the evil that wants to destroy them and their school.

Instead, the two go out on the road, finding whatever underground robot fighting rings they can with their new discovery: a years - old sparring robot called Atom, which they find in the dump (Child endangerment is another of Charlie's virtues).

He travels from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next, scoring fights for his low - end bots that he's pieced together.

While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit.