Wilder vs Fury

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Fury wins in technical knockout in Round 7, after Wilder's corner, on seeing their boy was being slaughtered, threw in a white towel into the ring.

No, really. They took a white towel wakarusha ndani ya ring. Ref stopped the fight.

Penda sana. Wilder is too cocky and talked stupid. I think a little humbling does him good.

ION, leo ndo nimejua "throw in a towel" meaning to give up, ilitoka wapi.
 
Pseudonyms said:
"throw in a towel"
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What's the meaning of the phrase 'Throw in the towel'?
To throw in the towel (or, to throw the towel in) is to give up, to avoid further punishment when facing certain defeat.

What's the origin of the phrase 'Throw in the towel'?
This little expression of course derives from boxing. When a boxer is suffering a beating and his corner want to stop the fight they literally throw in the towel to indicate their conceding of the fight. This earliest citation that I have found of this is in the American newspaper The F ort Wayne Journal-Gazette, January 1913:

Murphy went after him, landing right and left undefended face. The crowd importuned referee Griffin to stop the fight and a towel was thrown from Burns' corner as a token of defeat.
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It was very soon after that that the phrase began to be used in a figurative sense, to indicate giving up in non-boxing contexts; for example, in the Australian author Clarence James Dennis's WWI patriotic novel, The Moods of Ginger Mick, 1916:

No matter wot 'e done. It's jist a thing
I knoo 'e'd do if once 'e got the show.
An' it would never please 'im fer to sling
Tall tork at 'im jist cos 'e acted so.
"Don't make a song uv it!" I 'ear 'im growl,
"I've done me limit, an' tossed in the tow'l."
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Throwing in the towel was preceded by throwing in the sponge. Sponges were a common ringside accessory as early as the 18th century. Throwing in the sponge was then the preferred method of conceding defeat. This is recorded in the mid-19th century, in The Slang Dictionary, 1860:

'To throw up the sponge,' to submit, give over the struggle, - from the practice of throwing up the sponge used to cleanse the combatants' faces, at a prize-fight, as a signal that the 'mill' is concluded.
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Curiously, throwing a hat into the ring has pretty much the opposite meaning to throwing in a towel - one means join a contest and the other means leave it. Despite the surface similarity, the two phrases are unconnected.
 
Boxing is a brutal sport.
Ata kama iko na pesa kufanywa uso hivi apana.
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Meria said:
There was no hype.
Boxing used to be big.
The fighters were legends.
The world used to stop when there was a title fight.
Rumble in the jungle
Thriller in Manila
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The first bout niliona ilikua mike tyson vs holyfield..... mzae alinipeleka kenya cinema kuwatch the atmosphere in that place was out this world. Nilikua mdogo but to this day i still remember.
 
Meria said:
There was no hype.
Boxing used to be big.
The fighters were legends.
The world used to stop when there was a title fight.
Rumble in the jungle
Thriller in Manila
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Before this fight Lewis, Holyfield and Mike Tyson were honoured with medals. The cheers and respect from the crowd after so many years out just showed a huge gap of class between them and the current wannabes
 
Kamikaze said:
Before this fight Lewis, Holyfield and Mike Tyson were honoured with medals. The cheers and respect from the crowd after so many years out just showed a huge gap of class between them and the current wannabes
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The greatest, Mohammed Ali
George Foreman
Joe Frazier
 
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