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middleweight

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 160 pounds (72 kilograms), between junior middleweight and super middleweight.
  • noun A boxer competing in this weight division.
  • noun A similar weight division in other sports, such as weightlifting.
  • noun A contestant in this weight division.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable A weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
  • noun countable A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds
  • noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds
  • noun a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds

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Examples

  • Inside scoop: Karami won at the 2003 worlds in middleweight, which isn't an Olympic division so he has moved to welterweight.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Unable to secure a lucrative match with cash cow Oscar De La Hoya, Wright accepted the challenge of former three-division king Felix "Tito" Trinidad in a non-title middleweight match-up, a fan favorite that was in the midst of a comeback after an extended layoff and a feared power puncher that many figured might be able to knock Wright out.

    Ringside Report Bad Brad 2010

  • He revealed he had spoken to former long-term middleweight world champion Hopkins on the phone three times while he was in America.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • Hopkins has only had two of his 56 professional fights outside America in his 21-year career, but Manolikos didn't rule out enticing the former long-term middleweight world champion to Australia.

    unknown title 2009

  • Hopkins has only had two of his 56 professional fights outside America in his 21-year career, but Manolikos didn't rule out enticing the former long-term middleweight world champion to Australia.

    unknown title 2009

  • The UFC's first ever light heavyweight champion (at the time referred to as middleweight championship), Shamrock went on to defend the the title four times from 1998 through 1999, cementing his place as one of the organizations most dominant champions of all time.

    Five Ounces of Pain 2009

  • Hopkins has only had two of his 56 professional fights outside America in his 21-year career, but Manolikos didn't rule out enticing the former long-term middleweight world champion to Australia.

    unknown title 2009

  • If he is goaded into a firefight with Silva before the ex-champion is severely fatigued, then it will be a painful, humbling experience for the former winner of The Ultimate Fighter, assuming Silva brings all of his power and free-swinging ways down to middleweight, which is no sure thing.

    UFC Press Releases 2010

  • Big words considering the likes of Kelly Pavlik and Arthur Abraham that call the middleweight division home.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • The Maximum Fighting Championship wasted no time in finding a top-notch opponent for the recently signed Thales Leites as another big-name middleweight has joined the fray.

    UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com 2009

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