Professionally the fighters always maintained a level of respect, but personally they held each other in what for things that were said?\nOptions:\n- belittlement\n- humiliate\n- irreverence\n- contempt\n- love
Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer.
contempt
Contempt is scornful feeling kept because of something done previously like things that were said.

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Thus, the answer is contempt