Heavyweight and Middleweight

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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  • Series / BattleBots Complete Control was brought back as a heavyweight version of the middleweight bot with a flamethrower.
  • Wrestling / Kiyoshi Tamura 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.
  • Wrestling / Naoya Ogawa Yoshida defeated Ogawa in what would have been Naoya’s 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.
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