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(redirected from hitting below the belt)

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Both have reputations for being dirty fighters, Golota more so for his two infamous disqualification losses in 1996 to Riddick Bowe for hitting below the belt.
It is as bad to pose as a thing as to be the thing itself, according to the marquess of Queensberry, the man who, ironically, invented the concept of not hitting below the belt, in his 1895 attack on Oscar Wilde.
It was a more eloquent, simple statement on what the GOP stands for than anyone has been able to muster since Reagan, who also knew how to tweak the other party with a joke or a pointed observation, but always with a smile, and never hitting below the belt.
 
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