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light middleweight

a. an amateur boxer weighing 67--71 kg (148--157 pounds)
b. (as modifier): a light-middleweight bout
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Mexico to capture the super welterweight title at 154 pounds, up until his recent victories at the stage of his career where most fighters have retired or greatly regressed in their skill.
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Kell Brook is returning to the ring in front of his hometown fans to take on former Commonwealth super welterweight champion Michael Zerafa.
However, the 31-year-old drew a line under those twin defeats in emphatic style in his first foray into the super welterweight division as he needed less than five minutes to dispose of Belarusian fighter Rabchenko to the delight of a partisan home crowd in Sheffield.
But the super welterweight looked back to his best at the Sheffield Arena stopping the Belarusian in round two.
Dixon claimed the super welterweight version in sensational fashion last March with a 100-second knockout of Wrexham's Mike Jones at the Merthyr Leisure Centre.
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