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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
middleweight
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a heavyweight/middleweight/featherweight etc champion (=one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight)
▪ Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
title
▪ He won the light middleweight title at the 1995 Pan Am Games.
world
▪ He lost 19 years of freedom and lost his chance at the world middleweight boxing title.
▪ During his career, Olajide rose to be the No. 1 world middleweight contender.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Brighton-based boxer, Eubank is a middleweight world title contender the boxing critics love to beat up in print.
▪ During his career, Olajide rose to be the No. 1 world middleweight contender.
▪ He won the light middleweight title at the 1995 Pan Am Games.
▪ Len Harvey, the leading middleweight in the inter-war years, fought 412 contests.
▪ This victory may set Stretch up with a world-title elimination fight with Britain's other leading light middleweight, Chris Pyatt.
▪ World middleweight champions Mickey Walker and Joey Giardello both came from solid middle-class homes, but fought like cavemen in the ring.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
middleweight

also middle weight, 1842, from middle + weight.

Wiktionary
middleweight

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports 2 (context countable English) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc 3 (context countable business by extension English) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.

WordNet
middleweight
  1. adj. of middle weight or of a middleweight category (155-160 lbs for prizefighters); "a middleweight boxer"

  2. n. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds

  3. a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds

  4. a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds

Wikipedia
Middleweight

Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.

Middleweight (MMA)

The middleweight division in mixed martial arts refers to a number of different weight classes:

  • UFC's middleweight division, which groups competitors within 171 to 185 lb (77.5 to 84 kg)
  • Shooto's middleweight class, which refers to competitors between 155 and 170 lb (70.3 and 77.1 kg)
  • ONE Championship's middleweight limits between 186 and 205 lb (84.0 to 93 kg)

Usage examples of "middleweight".

On April the first, the day after the disastrous payday, Pvt Icl Bloom the potential middleweight, Pvt Icl Malleaux the new man and potential featherweight, and several other Pfcs who were potential went on Detached Service with the new class at the Regimental NCO School.

She learned that she had just missed a Wild West pageant, recreated from Earth's ancient past, as well as a much-ballyhooed match for the freehand middleweight championship of the Inner Frontier.

He was chocolate skin on a middleweight wrestler's frame, she was tall, pale, and coltishly slim.

I told him about my plans to spend the upcoming month-long Christmas break in the Albany, New York, training camp of “Gentleman” John Griffin, a political science major at Brockport who was putting himself through school by moonlighting as a professional middleweight boxer.

He was a Mex middleweight out of El Monte, fast, with knockout power in both hands and a crablike defense, guard high, elbows pressed to his sides to deflect body blows.

He looked like a fourth-rate middleweight whose manager has let him be outmatched.

My assignment was to cover Rocky Fratto, an undefeated junior middleweight who hailed from Geneva, in the nearby Finger Lakes region.

I really wanted to see how the middleweight wrestler was going to do against the light heavyweight.

Charlie, now a light middleweight, couldn't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line, although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg.

I thought about being good but not really good, about keeping my weight down when I could have put on an extra ten pounds and fought heavyweight, about fighting tortilla-stuffed Mexican middleweights at the Eagle Rock Legion Hall where my old man went to his Bund meetings.

He ordered a martini, then sought out a small booth in the shadows at the back of the room, and spent the next hour nursing his drink while watching a procession of fights leading up to the main event, which featured two Oriental middleweights whose names were unfamiliar to him.

He remembered staying in a ratty pink hotel with two other middleweights, and he remembered getting drunk on Saturday nights and, out of sheer boredom, beating the shit out of skinny Cuban refugees who lived in the city parks.

I've run from more than I can count, and lived never to regret it, and this lean ten stone of quivering, fighting fury, obviously nimble as a weasel and built like a champion middleweight, was the last man I wanted to try conclusions with-well, I'd been ill.