noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a heavyweight/middleweight/featherweight etc champion (= one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight )
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Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night.
light heavyweight
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
super
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Nobody even gave him much chance of surviving the match for the gold in Greco-Roman wrestling's super heavyweight division.
undisputed
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As a result he is no longer undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
■ NOUN
boxer
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He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer .
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Sometimes there were famous guests: heavyweight boxers , film actresses, war heroes, prime ministers.
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He was the first heavyweight boxer to win the world championship three times. 2.
boxing
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World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year - in total chaos.
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Willard's restoration of white dominance in heavyweight boxing in 1916 coincided with the re-establishment of the colour line.
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Lewis's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered, punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing .
champ
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The former world heavyweight champ was supposed to write a book documenting his prison experiences but clearly finds fiction more enjoyable.
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He was a thug when he came off the streets with explosive fists to become the youngest heavyweight champ ever.
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Husband John used to be a professional boxer ... and has beaten former heavyweight champ Joe Bugner on more than one occasion.
champion
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As a result he is no longer undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
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It was the heavyweight champion until the advent of Art Explosion, a production of Nova Development.
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Britain's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately.
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Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion , had his problems with the law.
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Viola Angotti could be heavyweight champion of the world.
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He presented boxer Jack Johnson when he was heavyweight champion .
championship
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They once had heavyweight championship offenses, but they have grown old.
division
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These days it is hard to say, and not only in the heavyweight division .
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The heavyweight division of boxing consists of one great puncher and a string of weak punch lines.
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If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
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Nobody even gave him much chance of surviving the match for the gold in Greco-Roman wrestling's super heavyweight division .
title
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Lennox shouldn't worry that the world heavyweight title is no longer unified.
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An Olympic gold medallist in 1960, Ali came to prominence shortly before his assumption of the world heavyweight title in 1964.
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They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday's offical world heavyweight title eliminator.
world
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Lennox shouldn't worry that the world heavyweight title is no longer unified.
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The former world heavyweight champ was supposed to write a book documenting his prison experiences but clearly finds fiction more enjoyable.
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The world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis topped the men's chart with $ 24.5m.
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The pre-race hype had been worthy of any world heavyweight boxing match, on a par with Ali and Frazier.
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Britain's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately.
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An Olympic gold medallist in 1960, Ali came to prominence shortly before his assumption of the world heavyweight title in 1964.
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They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday's offical world heavyweight title eliminator.
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Deaf Sport provided a world heavyweight boxing champion in James Burke.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was compared to Proust and other literary heavyweights.
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Intellectual heavyweights will be debating what is one of the most important issues or our time.
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political heavyweights
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And just as with the customs men of Miyako, the large, square heavyweights were like children on a holiday.
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He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer.
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He was a thug when he came off the streets with explosive fists to become the youngest heavyweight champ ever.
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I am over six foot tall and a former heavyweight boxing champion.
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In terms of image the heavyweights are the heavyweights.
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Pham Van Dong, perspiring as the heavyweights encircled him, now accepted a partition at the sixteenth parallel.