heavyweight

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A six-fight undercard, including a heavyweight interim title bout between Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane, will precede the main event.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

McMahon picked the Samoan heavyweight Umaga; Trump chose the jacked Bobby Lashley.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

In the co-main event Brazil's Alex Pereira faces Frenchman Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight title.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The 2026 gubernatorial primary has been one of the most unpredictable and expensive in decades and a race that was shaped early on by a number of heavyweight Democrats staying on the sidelines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Some of them didn’t understand, and that’s how it began to get around that I was Cassius Clay, world heavyweight champion.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey