Possible Questions:
- Early round
- Main event preceder
- Opening bout, briefly
- Heat, for short
- Early tourney match
- Bout before the main event, briefly
- Bout before the biggie
- Undercard fight, for short
- Undercard boxing bout
- Tourney starter
- Secondary sports event
- Qualifying round, informally
- Qualifying contest, for short
- Qualifying bout, for short
- Qualifier
- Pre-doctoral exam
- Not the main event, briefly
- Not the main event
- Minor match
- Main-event warm-up
- Main-event preceder, briefly
- Main-event preceder
- Main-event forerunner
- Main event preceder, for short
- Main event preceder, briefly
- It's before the main event, briefly
- Heat, of a sort
- Fight before the main fight, briefly
- Fight before the main fight
- Event featuring unqualified competition?
- Event before the main event
- Early tournament match, for short
- Early stage of a tourney
- Early round, perhaps
- Early round, for short
- Early round, briefly
- Early match, briefly
- Early match
- Early heat
- Early game in a tourney
- Early game in a tournament
- Early boxing match
- Contest before the main contest
- Bout before the main event