Sentence examples for heavyweight fighting from inspiring English sources

Mr. Samir, 6 feet 1, 215 pounds, 26 years old and living in Astoria, Queens, has amassed a 10-0 record as a professional heavyweight, fighting out of Mendez Boxing club on West 26th Street.

It took some doing to reel in a heavyweight fighting fish on a lightweight rod.

With former light-heavyweight champions Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans serving as coaches, filming of the heavyweight fighting has already begun.

The former WBA heavyweight champion, fighting for the first time after a three-and-a-half year absence and a career-threatening shoulder injury, secured what was a routine victory two minutes and 11 seconds into his comeback.

The 25-pound weight advantage Ruiz possessed -- he lost two pounds since Thursday's weigh-in, falling to 224 pounds -- made it seem more like a heavyweight was fighting a middleweight, which is where Jones has fought much of his career.

Just three months ago, Anthony Johnson was near the top of the UFC's light heavyweight division, fighting for the title at UFC 187.

By contrast, other virtualisation efforts were too ambitious and required extensive changes.Now the industry's heavyweights are fighting back with a vengeance.

Mike Tyson, barred from fighting heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis in Nevada, applied for a license yesterday to fight in Texas.

He is a young heavyweight with potential, fighting in a weight class that needs more exciting young talent.

Nicolai Valuev, a 7-foot-2, 320-pound Russian heavyweight who was fighting in the United States for the first time in four years, knocked out George Linberger in the first round last night at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.

Cleverly was due to fight Braehmer in 2011 but inherited his WBO light-heavyweight crown without fighting after the German pulled out because of injury.