How to Use middleweight in a Sentence

middleweight

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Smith stands 6-foot-3, which is tall even for a super middleweight.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The two fight for the third time September 17 in Las Vegas with four super middleweight belts on the line.
    — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Tszyu, a 27-year-old junior middleweight, has had a nice run so far in his six-year career.
    — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The other was against Floyd Mayweather Jr. as a light-middleweight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
  • The two-time Olympic gold medalist will defend her four world middleweight titles against Kozin.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2022
  • This one is supposed to tell us if the Men are different from the rest of the NFL’s bloated middleweight division.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The middleweight champion broke the pinky on his right hand in three places in that win and couldn't hit anything during training for six months.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 7 June 2022
  • There is Burley Brooks, a super middleweight, that’s 6-1 with five knockouts.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But the 17-year-old middleweight prospect is also soon set to leave, immigrating to Poland with his mother.
    — Artem Bondar, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • James Bregman emerged from the middleweight division with a bronze medal, the first of 16 Olympic medals won by Americans in judo.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021
  • Hagler was one of the great middleweights in boxing history.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Conwell, a Cleveland Heights graduate, competed in the middleweight event at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
    — cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • Members of his team have mocked Alvarez, who already has two of the super middleweight belts and will try to take Saunders’ 168-pound title.
    — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • Spence has hinted about moving up to junior middleweight (154 pounds).
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Hagler fought Vito Antuofermo of Italy to a draw in 1979, Hagler’s first bid for the middleweight title.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Fried’s crash course resulted in the music for Day of the Fight (1951), about middleweight Walter Cartier preparing for a bout.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The middleweight charm quarks also got close enough to attract each other and rope in two lightweight antiquarks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Oscar de la Hoya was a natural welterweight and moved up to middleweight.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2022
  • Shields defeated Franchón Crews-Dezurn in her pro debut in 2016 but wants another bout now that the French fighter holds the super middleweight crown.
    — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • The main event of the pay-per-view will feature middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, who will take on the challenger Jared Cannonier.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • Costa is one of the hardest hitters in the middleweight division and Rockhold has lost his last two fights (and only fights in the past two and half years by brutal knockouts.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Her goombah was Rocky Graziano, who was a major middleweight champion.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Southside is owned by Jack Loew, who trained middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Golovkin, who also owns two belts at middleweight, is another fight Charlo's team has been trying to make happen.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 7 June 2022
  • There were eight boxing champions and many people could name them all at any moment and most everyone could at least name the heavyweight and middleweight kings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The other fights weren't too shabby, either, including Leonard's upset of Hagler for the middleweight title in 1987.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • In another big draw on the card, fan favorite Nick Diaz returned to the octagon after an absence of more than six years only to lose to Robbie Lawler in the third round of a middleweight bout.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2021

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