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Mics were also embedded in posts to catch cornermen chatter and layered under mats for more realistically thunderous takedowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Once the fight was over, her cornermen were called upon to hold her up.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022

But just a day before the event, one of its fighters had to pull out after he and two of his cornermen tested positive.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2020

“I’m all right,” the champ told his cornermen as he sat on his stool at round’s end, before adding, glassy-eyed, “What’d he hit me with?”

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2016

In this work I could not give much help, for this notching and fitting together was done by experienced ones, called the axe, or cornermen.

From A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico by Jabez, Brother