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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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Bernard Hopkins, one of the great middleweights in boxing history, recently announced that he wanted to come out of a short retirement.
In another proposal, middleweights formed outright early in the universe and will ultimately pack on enough mass to become supermassive black holes, like the one believed to lurk at the core of our own galaxy.
I beat one of the best middleweights (Joppy), and I will beat Hopkins, too.
 
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