prizefighter

noun

Etymology: From prize + fighter or prizefight + -er (“person, agent”). See prizefight for sense development.

1. A professional boxer.

   ““Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.”

   “The Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, the Brooklyn gym that is the center of Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen's wrenching documentary "On the Ropes," is much more than a neighborhood training facility for aspiring prizefighters.”