They were very evenly matched, and the boxing was hard.
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The teams were evenly matched early in the first half.
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So the odds need to be close to evenly matched.
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Would you say you guys have pretty evenly matched libidos?
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This, similar to Max, keeps the fights exciting and evenly matched.
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But the Indians and the Jays are much more evenly matched.
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And finally ... Evenly matched Thirty kids versus two pro soccer players.
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But in the updated version, the tussle appears more evenly matched.
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"These two teams are evenly matched," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said.
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"The teams ranked three through seven are very evenly matched," Hocutt said.
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Based on this year's primary results, the parties are fairly evenly matched.
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By the time 1966 rolled around, the nations were almost evenly matched.
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We were too evenly matched for me to deliver the knockout blow.
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But at last, heavyweight boxing now has at least two evenly matched front-runners.
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Thus, conflict in sci-fi tends to be between entities that are evenly matched.
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Those intangibles could mean a lot in a game between teams so evenly matched.
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In bright light, the Galaxy Fold and the Pixel 230 are quite evenly matched.
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Real produced a ruthless second-half display after an evenly matched first 45 minutes.
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The two parties' coalitions are very evenly matched in the United States right now.
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Only if the avatars were evenly matched and fit would the player start moving more.
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A CNN/ORC poll last week found Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump almost evenly matched.
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If teams are evenly matched, that's a lot of hours going into CS every day.
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And in a game this evenly matched, even a slight edge could be the difference.
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Is the high likelihood of a draw a result of the teams' being evenly matched?
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In 210, Goldman and JPMorgan were much more evenly matched when it came to profitability.
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Chances are thin so far, with the evenly matched game living up to its billing.
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Really, she and Anna are evenly matched, locked in a contest of radically different psychologies.
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But for the purpose of buying and launching a game, the two are pretty evenly matched.
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The normal outcome is that the sides are roughly evenly matched and fight to a draw.
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What's exciting is that she's evenly matched with Burke, who, as Anthony, is a smooth-talking nightmare.
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He and Steve Rogers seem evenly matched, trading blows in the forest on the outskirts of Wakanda.
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She held the rope firmly but didn't pull, holding Sherman in an evenly matched tug-of-war.
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Nationally, each candidate got a bit under 48 percent of the popular vote — they're about evenly matched.
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A beautifully filmed sequence in which the two brothers fought amid collapsing towers and turrets, both evenly matched.
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The Grab deal feels somehow different since, prior to last year, Uber and Grab were fairly evenly matched.
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As stunning as the lightsaber battles in the prequel trilogy were, they were often between evenly-matched opponents.
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Advancers and decliners were almost evenly matched overall, and half of the TSX's 10 main groups moved higher.
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In congressional districts that are evenly matched or slightly Republican, there are more establishment challengers than progressive challengers.
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The first half featured a back-and-forth, evenly matched game in which neither team could play away.
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But whereas the AL and NL were roughly evenly matched economically, the Football Alliance was clearly the weaker sibling.
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Dan Severn and Kimo Leopaldo, on the other hand, showed exactly how bad evenly matched MMA fights can be.
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The teams are evenly matched, possession is split, and neither are afraid to commit numbers forward in the attack.
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The teams were evenly matched in about every category by halftime, with the Hornets holding a 44-42 lead.
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As a result, three of the weekend's four games are evenly matched, but this one is a potential blowout.
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If the two are evenly matched in talent, this show doesn't give Mr. Zsiros the chance to prove it.
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Stars shut out Islanders DALLAS — The Dallas Stars and New York Islanders were evenly matched for much of Saturday's game.
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Sometimes the "law" is just whatever side of an evenly matched debate that a majority of the high court chooses.
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It's driven by the pro- and anti-Kavanaugh sides being more evenly matched in the House than in the Senate.
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The teams appeared evenly matched with neither side pulling ahead by more than a goal during the first two periods.
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Then he turns around and wins the fourth game — really astonishing that the program is so evenly matched with him.
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Group H, which also includes Poland and Senegal, was said to be the most evenly matched at the World Cup.
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This year's group of death features Poland, Senegal, Japan and Colombia, all of which are impressive and somewhat evenly matched.
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The series could not be more evenly matched — each team has won 33 times to go along with six ties.
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The 15th seeded Keys and the 20th seeded Vandeweghe are good friends off the court and evenly matched on it.
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First, she spars with Brienne and they seem evenly matched, even after Brienne knocks Arya's sword Needle out of her hand.
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"Obviously they're ahead of us, but I do feel like we're pretty evenly matched with anybody in the East," Vogel said.
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The final verdictFrom prices to editing tools, these two giant photo services are pretty much evenly matched in most key features.
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Because Ke and Sedol are probably fairly evenly matched in skill, the new game against AlphaGo may not mean too much.
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In what should be a fantastic game between evenly matched teams, the deciding factor could be which overmatched secondary performs better.
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Of course, they weren't evenly matched, and here's where the first signal that things might get a little weird popped up.
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Options like sharing, searching, and editing are pretty evenly matched, or not different enough to make one stand out against the other.
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According to a CNN poll released on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were evenly matched in advance of Saturday's Democratic caucus.
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Moreover, copper supply and demand were almost evenly matched in the last quarter of 2017, suggesting that copper's deficit dynamics are ebbing.
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After falling behind two games to one in the series, the Dodgers won two consecutive elimination games in an evenly matched series.
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In more than 80 percent of cases, the sides were more evenly matched, and resources weren't a particularly good predictor of success.
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By nearly any metric, Fury's win was about as definitive a victory as you are likely to see among evenly matched elites.
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The teams are evenly matched, and while Houston's home-field advantage makes it a worthy favorite, there is potential for an upset.
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When the commentators were asserting that the game looked evenly matched, OpenAI would declare that it perceived a 90 percent chance of victory.
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That is logical: India resisted outside advice on Kashmir even when it was far more evenly matched with Pakistan than it is today.
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The attorney-general's intervention means that he and Mr Meade are more evenly matched, and less of a threat to Mr López Obrador.
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The Russians found themselves evenly matched by a German team who surprised the hockey world by making it to their first Olympic final.
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But in Michigan, a heavy manufacturing state, Biden was evenly matched with Sanders among white men without a college degree, exit polls said.
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That's where the analogy breaks down: two evenly matched teams make for a better game on Sunday, but not a viable climate strategy.
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The two were more evenly matched on shorter points, but of the 64 points that lasted nine or more shots, Nadal won 39.
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Usually major party candidates and allied campaigns are pretty evenly matched financially, making the role of money in presidential elections something of a wash.
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We should expect a much closer contest in the title game, with two stylistically different but evenly-matched offensive juggernauts going head-to-head.
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If Blizzard's matchmaking algorithms end up putting more players in similar, evenly matched situations, maybe these Torbjörn duels will start catching on in Overwatch.
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"Given that the Americans have global obligations and responsibilities but China doesn't, then effectively by that point they would be evenly matched," Roggeveen said.
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Roan and Octavia working together seem almost evenly matched against Luna, they even get the advantage, with Roan being close to finishing her off.
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When two mostly evenly matched opponents like that are pitted against each other, it makes sense that the debates wouldn't make a gigantic impact.
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It was a strange, evenly-matched fight that eventually led to nothing — both men walked out of it completely unscathed, and with minds unchanged.
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A team of five attackers tries to penetrate a fortified location where an evenly matched team of five defenders holds and protects an objective.
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The final set was a gripping, evenly-matched affair as Gauff battled from a break down to get back on serve at 2-3.
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The women were evenly matched and fought lively for some time before Ada slipped and hit her head on the edge of a large table.
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The series is more evenly matched than the first game made it appear; this rivalry is, as Jared Dubin wrote last week, almost impossibly competitive.
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If Mike Daniels, the team's versatile defensive lineman, is unable to go because of a hip injury, then this game is far more evenly matched.
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In the 43th minute of an evenly matched game, Sadio Mane held the ball for a moment, then found the perfect pass to Idrissa Gueye.
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Both Nishikori and Sousa entered their match after tight opening rounds and were evenly matched in the early exchanges on their favoured hard court surfaces.
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Usually the point is to keep the drivers safe or make racing more entertaining with evenly matched machines, but that doesn't mean the engineers like it.
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The competition thus far has been strong, and this year looks to be unique in how evenly matched many of the teams are across the regions.
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In the modern era of polarized, evenly matched parties, a popular-vote margin of 10 percentage points or more is rare in general elections for president.
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Mixed martial arts bouts often end quickly — the record is six seconds — but they can also drag on, with evenly matched athletes circling each other uneventfully.
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Evenly matched throughout 2017, they were named the L.P.G.A.'s co-players of the year, and Park finished first in season earnings while Ryu finished second.
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It was not until then that the Celtics gained any degree of separation, a fitting denouement to a closely contested series between two evenly matched teams.
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In the Gulf War, reporters constructed a conflict between evenly matched opponents by failing to show the starkly uneven death toll between US and Iraqi forces.
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According to a non-scientific observation the split between pro-Europe and pro-Brexit supporters appears quite evenly matched, in line with the close 2016 referendum result.
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Vinatieri said he thought the kickers in Sunday's Super Bowl 50 - Graham Gano of the Carolina Panthers and Brandon McManus of the Denver Broncos - were evenly matched.
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The opening weekend crowd was nearly evenly matched between men (49% of ticket buyers) and women (51%), with 57% of customers clocking in over 25 years old.
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The Artemis tactician Ian Percy said Monday that New Zealand and Oracle Team USA were evenly matched for the Cup finals, which start Saturday in Great Sound.
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The pair are evenly matched on long-run pace while the grueling race, a slog in sweltering temperatures, can also take a toll on the tires and cars.
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In a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX, the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks proved they are still evenly matched, as the game featured seven lead changes.
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The pair appeared evenly matched through most of the first set, as Switzerland's Bencic struggled for consistency on serve, firing off five aces but committing four double faults.
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The nuclear threat One area where Indian and Pakistan are evenly matched is the area that raises the most worry whenever hostilities spike between the two -- nuclear weapons.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - UEFA's new Nations League competition has proved an instant success thanks to the apparently simple, but often forgotten, combination of an ingenious format and evenly-matched teams.
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In its place, a love story between a special-forces captain and a headstrong female surgeon, an evenly matched duo, unfolds not at workstations but in a war zone.
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With a close point spread and evenly matched teams, going with the home team seems right, especially with wide receiver Adam Thielen expected to miss the game for Minnesota.
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Still, the Midsummer Derby, as the race is known, is a wide-open affair in a year in which the crop of male 3-year-olds seems evenly matched.
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North Carolina is the rare swing state in the South where Democrats and Republicans are evenly matched, and where major elections are often settled by precious handfuls of votes.
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As for Ms. Houdyshell, she seems to have enriched both the sweet and sour of her characterization through a process of marination in the more evenly matched conflict around her.
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Written by showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, last night's episode included a whole lot of messiness to set the board for an evenly-matched fight between Cersei and Daenerys.
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Williams' overtime goal gives Capitals 3-2 series lead WASHINGTON — Once again, three periods were not enough in the evenly matched series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Washington Capitals.
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The pair split sets in an evenly matched fight and began the third with routine holds but Cibulkova drew first blood by breaking Kerber's serve to take a 3-1 lead.
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There's over $1 million dollars in prize money on offer, with this match being billed as the toughest to call in years, given how evenly matched the two player's rankings are.
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It was easily the most evenly matched game the two teams have played so far, especially for Korea, who had been outscored by 8-0 margins in both their previous games.
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In terms of pitching, too, the two teams were evenly matched, with the Yankees again taking the slight edge in terms of overall value, thanks to their fearsome, endlessly deep bullpen.
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On Thursday, the two players were evenly matched for most of the contest, with Gauff maintaining a slightly tighter performance and committing 34 unforced errors compared to 42 from Hungarian Babos.
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The key plank of the U.S. and Afghan strategy remains a simple and likely idea that could have worked well if the Taliban were evenly matched on the battlefield: a negotiated settlement.
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Now that he is fighting welterweights Cerrone finds himself more evenly matched in height and has made good use of the level change—particularly after drawing a striking exchange from his opponent.
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"We just laughed our way through life, and were really evenly matched at everything we did," Rhona said of her sister in an interview in 2017 with the British newspaper The Telegraph.
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Recently, they have seemed as evenly matched as ever: the last four meetings between the sides had all been decided by two points or less, with an aggregate score of 107-39.
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But an air of desperation, perhaps something close to panic, has entered the Likud campaign as polls show them evenly matched by the centrist Blue and White party of rival Benny Gantz.
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They worked stiff as hell, one of the stiffest matches of the night, and told a story of two evenly matched opponents, neither of whom could get the better of the other.
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Still, they're evenly matched, have similar interests, and have a ton of fun together, so if anyone is currently worthy of the term "frontrunner" on this season of The Bachelor, it's definitely Cassie.
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But because we need certain lies — a world in which the willowy tall blonde wins at life, for example — we have allowed a narrative to form in which the two are evenly matched.
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The two powers were more evenly matched at last year's world championships in Russia with the Americans top of the tree on 23 medals and eight golds to Australia's 16 and seven golds.
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The film depicts Lee (played by Mike Moh) swaggering around the set of "Green Hornet," denigrating boxer Muhammad Ali and picking a street fight with the evenly matched stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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As it stands, these two teams are more evenly matched than the average fan would assume, though a combination of top-shelf talent and finals experience should give Golden State a slight advantage.
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These battle-proven tanks provided evenly matched firepower and mobility, but one nasty feature degraded their protection: proximity to the ground rendered them and their clone-trooper crews vulnerable to surface-laid mines.
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It was a cordial difference of opinion, and the two undefeated champions in their physical prime were too evenly matched for a reasonable observer to allow more than a slight edge to either.
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Colman, Weisz, and Stone, meanwhile, all deserve Oscar nominations, but their roles are so evenly matched that each of them could easily land in the lead or supporting categories — a good problem to have!
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That looks less likely to be the case this year, with Hamilton and Vettel now evenly matched and the battle of four-times champions finely balanced on five wins apiece with eight races remaining.
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Headlined by Fabricio Werdum's first defense of the heavyweight crown, UFC 198 contains a Brazilian in every match, is fairly evenly matched, and the main card is stacked with fights that actually mean something!
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So while there are some major differences between the two updates (and yes, some people say we shouldn't compare them in the first place), in a lot of ways, the two updates are fairly evenly matched.
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A small Republican field facing a large one composed of first-time, relatively evenly matched Democrats threatened "lockouts", in which the top two finishers by vote-share both come from the party that receives fewer total votes.
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In an evenly matched contest between two friendly opponents, third seed Keys was impregnable on serve but claimed the only break in the second set before closing out a confidence-boosting win ahead of the U.S. Open.
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The final score was a blistering 37-8, and while the teams are pretty evenly matched otherwise, there's no doubt that crooked number will be blinking behind the eyes of every player on the field come Sunday.
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The Giants (21.5-8) are on a six-game losing streak, and the Bears are a much more talented team, but Chicago's offense is so unreliable that this game is more evenly matched than oddsmakers have predicted.
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In the fixed-income space, inflow trends were a bit more evenly matched with actively managed funds seeing $145 billion of net inflows compared with $191 billion of inflows into bond exchange-traded funds in that period.
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Boss Key Productions, headed by Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, is hoping that this four-on-four multiplayer shooter flies in the face of genre convention by offering greater verticality, gravity-disrupting powers, and evenly matched characters.
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Pro Rugby is a single-entity league, so players, coaches and other staff members have contracts with the league and are assigned to one of the five teams in an attempt to make them evenly matched and competitive.
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Vettel's 44th win lifted him to 68 points, with Hamilton second on 61 and the championship looking ever more likely to be an evenly matched battle between the two with Ferrari and Mercedes a cut above the rest.
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"Now, we are evenly matched but the reality Japan faces is that it is becoming the underdog," said Nozomu Yoshitomi, a professor at Nihon University in Tokyo who advised Japan's government as a Self Defence Forces military analyst.
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The stakes couldn't have been higher in what was one of the most anticipated first presidential debates ever, with polls showing the candidates almost evenly matched in battleground states, making it a race that is too close to call.
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They were not actually that fanciful two months ago, when it seemed plausible that if the race was pushed to the convention, it would be an evenly matched three-way battle among Cruz, Trump and Rubio that did it.
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"On the men's and women's sides there are no clear favorites with evenly matched fields, which increases the chances that it will come down to the last mile or two," said Scott Douglas, senior content editor for Runner's World.
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Jon and his northern allies, standing together with the remnants of Dany's Unsullied and Dothraki forces, seem to be at least evenly matched — if not outnumbered: Cersei isn't relying on the Golden Company purely because of their skill in battle.
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Well, the RPI doesn't take into account games against non-Division I teams, and since opponent winning percentage is so overrepresented, it's often better to play games you know you'll probably lose rather than games against more evenly-matched opponents.
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Young pours in 212 as Oklahoma tops North Texas Trae Young continued a torrid pace to begin his career as Oklahoma fended off an evenly matched North Texas 254.2-250 on Thursday night at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla.
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While both parties used to win landslide victories with some frequency -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Richard Nixon in 19803, Ronald Reagan in 1984 -- in recent decades the parties have become much more evenly matched and the elections much more closely contested.
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Some Republicans believe that, in Democratic-leaning or evenly matched states, Republican candidates are better off abandoning Mr. Trump because the party's most reliable voters are still likely to go to the polls and support every Republican on the ballot.
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"Our bot starts off completely random with no knowledge of the world and simply plays against a copy of itself which means it always has an evenly matched opponent," OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman explains in a video that preceded the match.
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But considering how well Atlanta (211-211) played last week against Green Bay, and how good Detroit (218-2130) has looked in both games so far, this could be the most evenly matched game this week in terms of talent.
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In this royal comedy, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz play two ladies at court who manipulate the diminished Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) to suit their own ambitions, and to judge from screen time alone, all three women are evenly matched leads.
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The left and right have been fairly stable and evenly matched over the past decade, a picture that looks a lot like American politics (we exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland, which make up less than 10 percent of Britain's population).
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But almost as interesting as the game itself was the fact that the two sides—one representing wobbly college basketball royalty, the other an upstart that had vanquished nearly all comers—turned out to be so evenly matched, just as the bookmakers predicted.
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Anything could happen, from a straightforward palace coup leading to a relatively orderly transition to, in the worst case, an open rift between more or less evenly matched parts of the military, leading to the kind of conflict you shudder to even picture.
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Meeting for the first time, Goffin and Millman were evenly matched early on, with the Australian, a last-minute call-up replacing Thanasi Kokkinakis, breaking Goffin's serve to set up a first set tiebreak at 6-6 that he won with relative ease.
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The presence of the mercurial Mr. Trump atop the Republican ticket is only one of many narrative wild cards in a state where Democrats and Republicans are evenly matched, and where handicapping statewide races is a challenge even in a normal year.
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And, though the plot is only moved forward via the murder of Jonathan, there is a clear statement being made about the evenly matched forces of good and evil, and the kind of resolve it will take for one to defeat the other.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - When Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa returns to the Boston Marathon starting line on Monday he will race for his third title but a clutch of fast competitors, including two other previous winners, make for an evenly matched field with no clear favorite.
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If you follow MMA closely or watch a few fights each month you start to realize that anyone in the top twenty or even thirty of a division could finish every fight if they weren't fighting evenly matched competition in hopes of moving forwards.
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Actual vote results are of course messier and unlikely to be so exactly matched, but this gives you a sense of the math of how problematic it can be for one party to have more evenly matched candidates on its side than the other.
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The Chinese copper price has also been rising in tandem with London and the CME but the increase in activity has been fairly evenly matched between longs and shorts, up by around 95,000 contracts and 92,000 contracts respectively since the December troughs, according to exchange data.
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That is not to say 37-year-old Garcia will fail to add to his first major win, but the best players are too evenly matched in the post-Tiger Woods era to realistically expect him to suddenly run up his major tally in his late 30s.
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Idle tabs will be suspended, meaning you lunatics opening 50 tabs (I can relate) will now see Firefox suspend unused tabs in order to keep your computer running quickly when memory is lower than 400 MB. Firefox and Chrome are now evenly matched in performance, according to independent tests.
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John Wanna, a professor of political science at the Australian National University in Canberra, the capital, said that the parties' senior figures were roughly evenly matched as campaigners, but that Mr. Turnbull, over a long campaign, could prove a more charismatic communicator than the Labor leader, Bill Shorten.
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Even then, a lockout is only likely when the race happens to develop in a very particular way — in which one or both parties end up having too many evenly matched candidates, so that no one candidate in a party manages to get a big enough slice of the pie for him- or herself.
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Every coach's definition of "out of reach" is different but in such an evenly matched series like the one between Winnipeg and Nashville, a second awful Jets goal should have seriously been considered that definition, especially faced with the knowledge that Rinne was either delivering virtuoso performances or playing like someone dipped his leg pads in cement.
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Here too, Trump is broadly seen as better on the economy (212% to 21% who think Clinton would do a better job handling it) and Clinton holds the edge on foreign policy (2003% to 2788%), but the two are about evenly matched in Florida on immigration (Clinton 0063% to Trump's 2006%) and terrorism (Trump 2769% to Clinton's 23.5%).
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The two tyres seemed evenly matched for most of the stint, although at times the softs used by the likes of Sergio Perez and Sebastian Vettel looked better than either – and that must have been painful for Red Bull, given that, had they stuck with the initial choice of softs for Ricciardo, the pitstop disaster would not have happened.
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But in an evenly matched game between superb teams, any element of surprise could be the difference between a win or a loss — which inspired a question to San Francisco's players about whether Staley, in a season that set a record for receiving touchdowns by 300-pound players, could contribute in the passing game if the 49ers needed him.
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