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middleweight
1. 
a. a professional boxer weighing 154--160 pounds (70--72.5 kg)
b. an amateur boxer weighing 71--75 kg (157--165 pounds)
c. (as modifier): a middleweight contest
2. a wrestler in a similar weight category (usually 172--192 pounds (78--87 kg))


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Hopkins, 42, held at least onepiece of the middleweight championship for 10 years before he lost all four belts via split decision to Jermain Taylor in July 2005.
DAMON RUNYON, legendary writer and humorist, as the coffin of the great middleweight boxer, Stanley Ketchel, was being lowered into the ground: "I betcha if someone started counting, Ketchel'd get up at five.
Studying the X-ray spectra with the Japanese satellite ASCA, Colbert and Richard Mushotzky of Goddard found that 10 of 17 nearby spiral galaxies emit a pattern of radiation expected from middleweight black holes.
 
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