as in champion
the person who comes in first in a competition became the youngest titleholder in the sport's history

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Recent Examples of titleholder However, the expectation is that his next fight will come against interim UFC heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall in a title unification matchup. Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 Fury was not happy with the judges in May, the former heavyweight titleholder seemed angrier with the scoring on Saturday. Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 In the headlining bout, UFC flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja faces former two-time Rizin bantamweight titleholder Kai Asakura. Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024 The 2023 titleholder, 25, got engaged to construction engineer Jack Henry Hendrix, 26, at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., on Nov. 30. Catherine Santino, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for titleholder 

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“Titleholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titleholder. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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