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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
title
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He won the light middleweight title at the 1995 Pan Am Games.
world
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He lost 19 years of freedom and lost his chance at the world middleweight boxing title.
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During his career, Olajide rose to be the No. 1 world middleweight contender.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Brighton-based boxer, Eubank is a middleweight world title contender the boxing critics love to beat up in print.
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During his career, Olajide rose to be the No. 1 world middleweight contender.
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He won the light middleweight title at the 1995 Pan Am Games.
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Len Harvey, the leading middleweight in the inter-war years, fought 412 contests.
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This victory may set Stretch up with a world-title elimination fight with Britain's other leading light middleweight , Chris Pyatt.
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World middleweight champions Mickey Walker and Joey Giardello both came from solid middle-class homes, but fought like cavemen in the ring.