featherweight
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- noun
- /ˈfɛðərˌweɪt/
- Specialized
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peso pluma
- A match-up of featherweight Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts turned into a kickboxing war when Antonio Carvalho locked horns with Rodrigo Damm.
- featherweight champion
- featherweight title
- featherweight boxer
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It's extremely difficult to find featherweights who are over six feet tall, but he's one of them.
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Doyle: The loser of this meeting between two struggling featherweights is probably gone from the UFC.
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Seen him fight once, just before he lost the featherweight title.
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I was featherweight fight champion in elementary school.
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It's all over the new UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
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Ladies and gentlemen, in a unanimous decision, Ray Cortez is disqualified, and Diana Guzman is declared the winner of this preliminary featherweight match.
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After outworking Chris Manuel for a unanimous decision victory last December, the former featherweight pasted Jarrod Card at the XFC 17 event back in April.
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Darren Elkins is known as a grinder, and he sure brought it in his UFC 154 featherweight bout with Steven Siler.
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The first fight of the main card did not disappoint as featherweight Pablo Garza handed Canadian Mark Hominick his fourth straight defeat with a dominating performance.
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In his latest fight, the featherweight champion defended his title against a skilled opponent.
Synonyms
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A person who fights using their fists in a sport with rules
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How Heavy
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5.8
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
Featherweight names a boxer who fights in a very light class. It comes from feather ('light, from a bird') and weight ('how heavy someone is'), so a featherweight is a fighter who is lighter than most boxers.