The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

As soon as the champion was cornered, he let fly at his challenger.

The grand champion defeated his opponent with nonchalant ease.

place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game

The powerful fighter struck the wall of rock with both hands, smashing it into pieces.

The judo champion met his opponent fair and square, without trying to take advantage of his weak points.

Contrary to what we expected, the champion was humiliatingly defeated by a young boxer.

This tournament provided many surprises with seeded players being beaten one after another in the early rounds.

The champion's heavy blow to the jaw made his opponent punch-drunk.

I'm not surprised that the Japanese judo player lost the bout. He was showing no spirit [fight] at all.

However, Suetsugu did not experience any difficulties because of his powerful running form.

We were completely confused by his ingenious tactics, and ended up being comprehensively [completely] beaten.

All the players looked tense though they had survived the preliminary contest.

She took several punches to the face from her opponent, Suzuki Sayako, but fought back hard.

When Sosa hit a grounder to second, he broke his bat.

He had to give up his specialty throw, the kata-guruma, as a result of the rule change.

Andújar played aggressively and made Nishikori run a lot.

Ralph won the championship against a strong late challenge from Patrick.

I had a good hand first but lost the game in the end.

Nishikori was shocked that he had no chance against his tough opponent.

The challenger fired sidewinders at the champion to knock out him.

The pilot that dropped the sandbag closest to the target was the winner.

At the ceremony, Baker appeared in a black tuxedo instead of his usual judo uniform.

The champion delivered a strong right to his opponent's jaw.

Rock breaks scissors. Scissors cut paper. Paper smothers rock.

There is no dohyo and wrestlers do not lose even if their hand touches the ground.

a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit

He overwhelmed Federer with his powerful forehands and eventually won the first set.

Musashi originated the technique of fighting with two swords and beat all his rivals.

From the look of the room, we may safely conjecture that a fierce struggle was fought there.

The room bore every trace [showed traces] of a violent struggle.