'middleweight' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to mean something that is between two extremes, or to describe a middle-level weight in certain sports. For example: "The middleweight division in boxing is home to some of the most exciting fights in the sport."
Did we really devote all that brow-furrowing critical attention to Argo (best picture, 2012), an engaging but supremely middleweight true-life dramedy about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis?
The legendary fighter joined Letterman shortly after outpointing Marvin Hagler for the middleweight championship – and proceeded to throw weapons-grade shade at his vanquished opponent.
The Irish southpaw who captured the WBO middleweight championship in December came off the canvas twice on Saturday to salvage a split draw against Peter Quillin in a 12-round fight at Barclays Center.
He'd fought only once in the past 533 days – a points win over someone named Lukas Konecny – and vacated the WBO middleweight title rather than face Matt Korobov for a career-high $1.4m purse, a move that drew criticism.
More Americans than Europeans live in big cities: there is a particular divergence in the size of each region's "middleweight" cities, those that teem just a little less than the likes of New York and Paris (see chart).
Measured by the tape, Mr Ali was an averagely big heavyweight; his genius was that he moved like a middleweight.
A contest that produces an undisputed super-middleweight champion seems a long way off.Even so, labelling "Super Six" a complete failure would be harsh.
Mr Hearn has sold rights to screen Prizefighter in Australia, Canada and eastern Europe, and expects to close deals in Germany and America this year.Ultimately, however, "Super Six" did not produce a winner that viewers could regard as the world's best super-middleweight.
South and North Korean boxers earned some 20 Olympic medals during the last half of the 20th century, and South Korea saw its first world champion in Kim Ki-su, who defeated Nino Benvenuti in a WBA junior-middleweight title match in 1966.
The next year he boxed outside Italy for the first time, retaining his European title in a bout in Berlin but losing his world junior-middleweight title to Ki-Soo Kim in a 15-round decision in Seoul, South Korea.
Earlier that same year he had won the WBA junior-middleweight title with a ninth-round knockout of Ayub Kalule.
