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junior middleweight
noun
- a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kilograms), between welterweight and middleweight.
junior middleweight
noun
- a professional boxer weighing 147–154 pounds (66.5–70 kg)
- ( as modifier ) Compare light middleweight
the junior-middleweight championship
Example Sentences
“I’m back now!” the elder Marquez, a former junior middleweight world champion, told his fellow announcers after changing out of the black T-shirt and black sweatpants he had worn during his son’s fight.
Hogan, a native of Ireland now living in Australia, fell just short in a title bid in in his last outing, losing to junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia in April.
Day, 27, had been in a coma for four days following his defeat and, despite having emergency brain surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, doctors were unable to save the junior middleweight.
Knocked down twice earlier in the bout, the junior middleweight was taken from the ring on a stretcher.
At stake Saturday for Shields are the vacant WBC super welterweight and WBO junior middleweight titles.
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