junior middleweight
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- noun
- /ˈdʒuːniər ˈmɪdəlˌweɪt/
- Specialized
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peso medio junior
- And Pacquiao definitely isn't going to move up to 154 to fight Cotto at the full weight for the junior middleweight division.
- junior middleweight title
- junior middleweight champion
- junior middleweight contender
Examples
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Now Lara and Martirosyan will have to fight again in order to determine who will be the mandatory challenger for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez.
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He is a junior middleweight, and his mother trains him; she jumps in the ring with high heels on.
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Following behind them, a tall, bald, white man in a suit carried the junior middleweight championship belt high above his head.
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Vinny was the man, the junior middleweight champion of the world.
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Pentello was a junior middleweight who was winning a lot, but whose tactics weren't always on the up and up.
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Vinny Pazienza has perhaps one last shot to win a world championship when he takes on undefeated WBA junior middleweight champ Gilbert Delé.
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In the co-feature that night, Philly's Gabriel Rosado kicked his career into high gear with a head-turning performance against the tough Jesus Soto Karass in a junior middleweight bout.
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In his most recent fight, in September, Jaime Munguia defended his junior middleweight world title by stopping Brandon Cook in Round 3.
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But Alvarez decided to fight him because he was one of the best junior middleweights in the world.
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Pentello was a junior middleweight who was winning a lot, but whose tactics weren't always on the up and up.
Synonyms
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A boxing weight division for fighters between welterweight and middleweight, up to 156 pounds or 71 kg
How Heavy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly combines 'junior' (a lower-ranking or smaller subtype) with 'middleweight' (a boxing weight class), so a learner who knows both words would infer it denotes a subtype of middleweight—a lighter or lower middleweight boxer. However, the exact technical upper limit (154 lb / 70 kg) is specialized factual knowledge not predictable from the constituents alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
Junior middleweight comes from boxing weight classes and names a class just below middleweight, where junior means 'smaller'. So, a junior middleweight is a boxer in the smaller middleweight class with a weight limit of about 154 pounds.