Heavyweight
Heavyweight noun - One of high position or importance within a group.
Middleweight and heavyweight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Middleweight" instead a noun "Heavyweight".
Nearby Word: heavy
Middleweight
Middleweight noun - A professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds.
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Synonyms for Middleweight
Heavyweight and middleweight are semantically related. You can use "Heavyweight" instead a noun "Middleweight".
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Complete Control was brought back as a heavyweight version of the middleweight bot with a flamethrower.
Source: Series / BattleBots -
Overshadowed by Awesome: Being a middleweight at the best with a grueling pro wrestling career behind him, Tamura typically suffered when facing world-level heavyweight fighters.
Source: Wrestling / Kiyoshi Tamura -
Yoshida defeated Ogawa in what would have been Naoyas eighth All Japan Championship, upsetting him thoroughly (Ogawa was a heavyweight and Yoshida a middleweight), and also won the gold in the same Olympics Ogawa got the silver.
Source: Wrestling / Naoya Ogawa
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