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  • Welterweights Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck and Mike Swick refuse to entertain the idea of ever fighting -- irrespective of the reward -- while top light-heavyweight contender Rashad Evans recently expressed his disdain at the prospect of meeting anybody within a one-hundred mile radius of his Albuquerque gym.

    Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011

  • Welterweights Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck and Mike Swick refuse to entertain the idea of ever fighting -- irrespective of the reward -- while top light-heavyweight contender Rashad Evans recently expressed his disdain at the prospect of meeting anybody within a one-hundred mile radius of his Albuquerque gym.

    Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011

  • If it's on where a given reader is, Welterweights Melligen (17-2, 13 KO) and Gonzalez (18-1, 12 KO) are just the right combination of limited and gutsy to make it a show.

    BoxingScene.com 2010

  • Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO) stepped up, knocking out Antonio Margarito to emerge as the man in class and promptly watched the rest of the Welterweights do everything they could to fight anyone but him for most of the last year and change.

    BoxingScene.com 2010

  • Welterweights Pernell Whitaker and Oscar De La Hoya briefly held the mantle, at least in some quarters, in the mid-to-late '90s.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • Welterweights Brian Foster (13-5 MMA, 1-2 UFC) and Forrest Petz (18-8 MMA, 2-4 UFC) are now official for the preliminary card of UFC Fight Night 22.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • Welterweights have dominated the pound-for-pound list over the past 20 or 25 years as well.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

  • Comeon Floyd, prove that you are the best, against the best - Welterweights, then and only then will I consider you to be a true Champ and not a Chump!!!

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • He mentioned in his comeback conference that its all about the skills ... well, if he has those skills, use 'em against Top notch competition ... not Lightweights or Jr. Welterweights.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • There were certainly other Welterweights who would have been a tougher physical challenge.

    BoxingScene.com 2009

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