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Definition of Middleweight
1. Noun. An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds.
2. Noun. A wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds.
3. Noun. A professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds.
Definition of Middleweight
1. Noun. A weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports ¹
2. Noun. A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Middleweight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middleweight
Literary usage of Middleweight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1914)
"Pa., by virtue of hie victory over Frank Klaua, la recognized by many as the
middleweight champion. There Is some strength to tho claim of Chip. ..."
2. Muhammad Ali & Company by Thomas Hauser (1998)
"That same year, he KO'd Ayub Kalule to win the WBA junior-middleweight crown.
... Then, in 1987, he captured every world middleweight title in existence by ..."
3. Kings of the Queensberry Realm by W. W. Naughton (1902)
""Young Mitchell," who was regarded as the middleweight champion of the coast in
those years, made himself very conspicuous during the contest by yelling ..."
4. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"When I became Governor, the champion middleweight wrestler of America happened
... The middleweight champion was of course so much better than I was that he ..."
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