middleweight:
(plural: ‘middleweights‘)
‘Middleweight’ is a division/category/group in certain sports, such as boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, etc.
a middleweight (boxing)
a boxer who belongs to the middle weight group — weight 72.5 Kg. or 160 pounds;
a wrestler belong to the middle weight group — weight 78 -87 Kg. (172 – 192 pounds),
a middleweight (weight-lifting)
e.g.
There is one middleweight and two super-middleweights from our club who have been doing great in the ring.
Some middleweights stay as middleweights as they retire from the boxing ring early, but some boxers eventually become heavyweights.
There are middleweight divisions in several sports, other than boxing: body-building, wrestling, weight-lifting and mixed martial arts though the average weight of middleweights, or any other category for that matter, may differer from sport to sport.
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Compare: lightweight & light heavyweight
Note 1: There are again sub-categories in middleweight: ‘light or junior middleweight’ and ‘super middleweight’. For an article about light middleweight, please click here; and for an article about super middleweight, please click here.
Note 2: ‘Middleweight’ is more commonly used as an adjective to refer to moderate events or activities, e.g. middleweight boxers’,”middleweight title’, ‘middleweight performance’, ‘middleweight fight’, ‘middleweight clashes’, ‘middleweight politician’, etc. For an article in which we see this word being used to refer to a politician who has a moderate political career, please click here.
Note 3: ‘Middleweight’ is also used in graphic designing field to refer to a designer who is more than a junior designer but less than a senior designer. For an article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here.
Note 2: ‘Middleweight’ is more commonly used as an adjective to refer to moderate events or activities, e.g. middleweight boxers’,”middleweight title’, ‘middleweight performance’, ‘middleweight fight’, ‘middleweight clashes’, ‘middleweight politician’, etc. For an article in which we see this word being used to refer to a politician who has a moderate political career, please click here.
Note 3: ‘Middleweight’ is also used in graphic designing field to refer to a designer who is more than a junior designer but less than a senior designer. For an article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here.
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