How to Use middleweight in a Sentence

middleweight

noun
  • Glenelg leaned on bonus points from its middleweights to roll to the victory.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Anders is 4-3 as a middleweight and 1-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 14 Nov. 2020
  • 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 5-5 as a middleweight and 2-2 as a light heavyweight in UFC.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Smith stands 6-foot-3, which is tall even for a super middleweight.
    Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The nine-figure, three-year deal kicks off Sept. 29 with a middleweight title fight.
    Marisa Guthrie, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
  • In terms of its assets, the PBoC has gone from the undisputed heavyweight to a middleweight.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The time allowed Alvarez to fill out and become a true middleweight.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • His daughter Freeda boxed in her own right as a middleweight in the early '00s.
    Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The middleweight takes on Bo Nickal in the first fight of the main card, two bouts before Gaethje vs. Holloway.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • 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 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
  • Smaller black holes might grow to middleweight by guzzling gas and dust.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
  • In the co-main event, Karl Roberson faces Marvin Vettori in a battle of middleweight prospects.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 13 June 2020
  • The other was against Floyd Mayweather Jr. as a light-middleweight.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
  • Yoel Romero missed weight by a fifth of a pound and was ineligible to win the UFC middleweight title.
    Todd Martin, latimes.com, 25 June 2018
  • 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
  • He is currently ranked 15th in the UFC middleweight rankings.
    Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • This was originally scheduled to be for the UFC middleweight title but Romero missed weight by 1/5 of a pound.
    Todd Martin, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • 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
  • Woodard, 68, grew up in Merced as the son of a professional boxer (a middleweight contender who went by Woody Winslow).
    Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • 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

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