How to Use light heavyweight in a Sentence
light heavyweight
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Anders is 4-5 as a middleweight and 2-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 21 May 2022
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Anders is 4-4 as a middleweight and 2-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 20 May 2022
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Anders is 4-2 as a middleweight and 1-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2020
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Anders is 4-3 as a middleweight and 2-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 13 June 2021
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Anders is 5-5 as a middleweight and 2-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Dec. 2022
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Anders is 4-3 as a middleweight and 1-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 17 May 2020
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The end came via ground-and-pound punches just 32 seconds into the second round of the light heavyweight bout.
—Staff Reports, Glendale News-Press, 15 Dec. 2017
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Anders has fought as a light heavyweight and must cut weight to reach the 185-pound middleweight limit.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 14 Nov. 2020
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The current light heavyweight won the first 13 fights of his career, winning the UFC middleweight title in the process.
—Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
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Or a super-fight could be in the works if light heavyweight champ Jon Jones decides to move up to heavyweight.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2019
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The average output for a light heavyweight is 52 punches, which is on par with what George did in the fight.
—Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2020
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The light heavyweight division is one of the most competitive in the UFC.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 10 July 2021
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The main event is a light heavyweight title fight between Glover Teixeira and Jamahal Hill.
—Catena Media, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
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Anders has worked as a light heavyweight in his previous two fights.
—Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 20 Aug. 2019
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Alvarez, meanwhile, is looking to bounce back from a stunning loss to Dmitry Bivol in a failed move up to light heavyweight.
—cleveland, 17 Sep. 2022
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Santos has all the tools to rule the light heavyweight division moving forward.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
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Another question is whether the fight would be fought at heavyweight or light heavyweight.
—Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2019
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The event will be headlined by a bout between Jon Jones and Thiago Santos for the light heavyweight title.
—Allen Kim, CNN, 3 July 2019
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The fight will unfold during a maximum of eight rounds at two minutes each at the light heavyweight limit.
—Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
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The week of his light heavyweight championship fight last October, he was said to have stayed in bed 20 hours a day to get maximum rest.
—Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022
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Both fighters believe this could be a stepping stone to landing a shot at Jon Jones and the light heavyweight championship.
—Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
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Jones relinquished his light heavyweight belt last year and began putting on muscle for a move up to heavyweight.
—Greg Beacham, ajc, 28 Mar. 2021
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Prochazka has won 13 straight fights to become the No. 2-ranked contender in the light heavyweight division.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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Sims currently is the undefeated light heavyweight champ with a record of 14-0.
—Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2017
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Jones vacated the light heavyweight belt in 2020 to transition to heavyweight.
—Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
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Now the light heavyweight is trying to stay fit jumping rope, running suicides on his block near Dallas, and holding planks.
—New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
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At 11-0, Dominick Reyes is considered to be a rising star in the light heavyweight division.
—Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
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The main events feature top contenders Jan Blachowicz against versus Magomed Ankalaev for the vacant light heavyweight belt.
—al, 10 Dec. 2022
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Among them was Laila Ali, a former super middleweight and light heavyweight champion and a daughter of Muhammad Ali.
—Remy Tumin, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
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Spinks bulked up from the light heavyweight class to heavyweight without losing speed, and defeated Holmes over 15 grueling rounds.
—Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
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