What is "pugilists"

Usage examples of "pugilists".

I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!

He belonged to the old school of fighters who looked the part, and in these days of pugilists who resemble matinee idols he had the appearance of an anachronism.

The matches had been halted by an unavailability of suitable pugilists in the Great War, and the old glass roof had been demolished by a stray bomb in the next.

Round about were pictures of hunting incidents, of racehorses, of politicians and pugilists, interspersed with advertisements of beverages.