What is "bantamweight"

Usage examples of "bantamweight".

Mexican Manuel Ortiz and Lou Salica of Brooklyn were battling for the bantamweight championship in Oakland.

He looked skinny beyond skinny, like he was starving himself to make the bantamweight limit.

Our chief engineer had always regarded wilson as a bit of a mental bantamweight, but you could see him slowly revising his opinion.

But in his clumsiness he stepped upon a wooden storm drain grate, the which, overcome by the bantamweight gnome and the heavyweight sack, broke beneath his feet.

Most of the brownshirts were scrawny bantamweights, but they were packing firepower grande: sawed-offs, tommmys, .

First you tell me this is just two witness buddies gabbing, then you tell me popping Mexican bantamweights for robbery don't push your buzzer.

Marion McPherson, Darktown Bill's long-suffering hausfrau, thinks Billy Boy spends Thursday nites watching Mexican bantamweights pound each other silly at the Olympic Auditorium.

Currently being questioned under hotel guard are Reuben Ruiz, bantamweight contender and regular attraction at the Olympic Auditorium, and Sanderline Johnson, former ranked flyweight working as a croupier at a Gardena poker establishment.

One of the leading lights of Hydra was the late Fletcher Pratt, a marvelous, lovable, feisty man who had once been a bantamweight prize fighter and converted himself into the writer who produced the best one-volume history of the Civil War ever in print (among very much else that is noteworthy).

I never did get the hang of table tennis, but I became quite a useful bantamweight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green.