featherweight
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The Sheffield-born fighter became Britain's youngest world champion when he beat Steve Robinson for the WBO featherweight title in Cardiff in 1995, aged 21 and 230 days.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Holloway made his name at featherweight, becoming champion and dominating the division with a record-setting 13-fight win streak.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Topuria won the UFC featherweight championship by knocking out Alexander Volkanovski in February 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Take Katz’s T.50: It combines a race-car-like V-12 engine with a featherweight body and can go from 0 to 60 mph in a tick under three seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
What Cavendish was trying to do was measure gravity at this extremely featherweight level.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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