Sentences with phrase «up against the ropes»

BROOKLYN — I have Bang Bang Barry Malone pinned up against the ropes of the ring with his hands up.

I think for him to put on the performance he did against Golovkin and (most significantly in my eyes) avoid taking any clean shots even though he was squared up against the rope for half the fight says a hell of a lot about the mans defensive capabilities.

A close range character who finds themselves up against the ropes can swap out with a long range partner, totally throwing off your opponent's timing and tactics.

In my defense, I did have him up against the ropes in the beginning but blew myself up with my own missile to start off -1 — 0.

Not exact matches

McGregor opens the fourth round by pinning Mayweather against the ropes and opening up some combinations.

Cotto was able to trap Floyd against the ropes much of the fight and dig to the body, and eventually that opened up hard shots to the head that did draw blood from the nose of «Money.»

He was straight up using the rope for it against «taker and the ref didn't break it either.

At times it required a resistant and resentful tug - of - war in which my Pre-Mommy self strained at the rope against Motherhood, unwilling to yield up one more inch of ground.

On a whim, I decided to set up T - Bar Rows using a barbell with one loading sleeve jutted up against the G - Rex and used a Rope as the gripping surface and to my surprise, it felt OUTSTANDING!

If you aren't a very good competitive StarCraft II player but you want to get better, Archon mode is also a very handy way to do so without smashing your head against solo - queue matches, since you can be paired up with an expert player who will show you the ropes and guide you to (hopefully) victory.

In her third Oak Knoll thriller, Hoag does a wonderful job portraying a woman at the end of her rope consumed by frustration and guilt, up against pure evil.

Instead of criticizing 401ks because they give American workers enough rope to hang themselves, a cogent and reasonable objection that would be widely ignored, they attempt to whip up populist sentiment against (largely imaginary) Wall Street fee gouging.

It can look messier than rope, because it will pick up hair from your cat as he or she rubs against it.

There's just nothing weirder for newcomers than buying the next entry in a landmark fighting franchise, only to find there's no way of learning the ropes other than being beaten up against them

We also wore chaps so when you get slammed up against something you have a little protection and additionally to avoid rope burns.

She remembers students climbing out of windows using bedsheets as ropes and being warned against wearing patent shoes, since men could see up your skirt.

It was like the Day of the Locusts, with people pushing up against this velvet rope that separated Jean - Michel from the thronging mass, and Jean - Michel was letting in whoever he thought was appropriate.

Time to consider which side of your bread is being buttered, and by who, and it ain't the up - side by first - class professionals, but rather, it is predominantly the dark underside by here - today - gone - tomorrow realturds and / or long - term learned - the - ropes realturds (playing along with the industry - centric rules against slagging other realturds), not to mention too many low - life - ignoring realturd - supporting self - serving ASSociation officials living off of realturds» dues - dollars (of which there are many more than non-realturds» dues dollars in my opinion), and that, my friend, is the problem that Chris and many others within ORE have not only recognized, but who have the gonads to break ranks with the devil that they know and rightfully kick sand in its face.