Sentence examples for heavyweight from high-quality English sources.

• Should Jones move to heavyweight, it could be a one-way move.

• This is not normal hope, these are not normal heavyweight days.

• Warrington: It was a heavyweight title fight, a rematch, a grudge match.

• During the 1900s most of boxing’s heavyweight champions were from the United States.

• Why would any heavyweight overlook another heavyweight?

• DC has beaten most of the light-heavyweight fighters already - Gustafsson included.

• When Foreman regained the heavyweight title at age 45, he was the oldest world heavyweight champion.

• UFC heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier: "Hey guys, two wrongs don't make it right.

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• Jon Jones chose to forfeit the light heavyweight belt in August 2020 in pursuit of a heavyweight title bid.

• After Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967, the heavyweight championship became muddled.

• Italian heavyweight Guido Vianello stopped Donald Haynesworth with 44 seconds left in the first round after a one-punch knockdown.

• This is two heavyweight boxers going toe to toe for all the jewels in heavyweight boxing, nothing more, nothing less."

• In 1985 Michael Spinks became the first light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight crown when he defeated Holmes.

• Sonny Liston, the baddest of heavyweight men, fought and won the first ever world heavyweight title fight to take place here in 1963.

• The fight between former world heavyweight boxing champion Mercer and reigning UFC heavyweight champ Syliva was meant to be a boxing match.

• Though a heavyweight could swat a flyweight with ease in reality, in pound-for-pound lists a flyweight could rank higher than the heavyweight.

heavyweight sentence examples

• Million-dollar purses for heavyweight championships became commonplace by the 1970s, and the heavyweight champion Ali earned an estimated $69 million during his 20-year professional career.

• Jones’s 12-round decision victory made him only the second light heavyweight to win a heavyweight belt (Michael Spinks, who defeated Larry Holmes to claim the IBF heavyweight title on…

• The winner will get a chance—although, given the fractious and fragmented state of the boxing industry, only a chance—at a lucrative unification fight with the third major heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, who emerged during Fury’s hiatus as England’s new heavyweight king.

• Miocic is the most dominant heavyweight champion in UFC history, with three straight title defences, while former US Olympic wrestling captain Cormier is a former Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix champion and the current UFC light-heavyweight champ – and also has three title defences to his name.