makeweight

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Marshall and Shields were the only two female middleweights.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022

Only five men had ever achieved four-belt undisputed champion status since the feat became possible with the WBO’s advent: middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, junior welterweights Terence Crawford and Taylor, and cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2021

One of the great middleweights in boxing history, Mr. Hagler died March 13 at 66.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2021

One after another he ripped through middleweights, knocking out 23 in a row between 2008 and earlier this year.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2017

Give the preference to the lean men and the middleweights.

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace