cruiserweights

Coughlin-Green was the final fight on a fifteen-bout, all-police card that included flyweights, welterweights, cruiserweights, and heavyweights.

Excerpt: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane 2008

There was a big gulf between what cruiserweights, even someone like Eddie Guerrero, were paid and what people who wrestled in the heavyweight division were paid.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

If you go back and watch some of the shows, you can hear the commentators spending more time talking about Hogan and the others coming up at the end of the show than the match the cruiserweights were actually having in the ring.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

That was the way it was for the cruiserweights: Everything was a struggle.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

A lot of the matches featured cruiserweights and Mexican wrestlers.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

WCW had never really done much in the way of a storyline with him, or with any of the Mexican wrestlers and cruiserweights for that matter.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

I SPENT MOST of 2003 and 2004 facing other cruiserweights.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

Dean Malenko is one of the all-time greats, a wrestler who defined professionalism and blazed a trail for cruiserweights.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

The few that were done were invented by the cruiserweights themselves, and they were not always pushed with much enthusiasm.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009

My character, like most of the Mexicans and cruiserweights, remained with the company.

REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK Rey Mysterio with Jeremy Roberts 2009