junior middleweight
Americannoun
noun
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He boxed professionally until 1997, successfully defending the WBA junior middleweight crown six times, including wins over Julian Jackson, Milton McCrory and Donald Curry before moving up a weight class to middleweight.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025
Charlo, the unified junior middleweight champ, moved up two weight classes to take on Alvarez.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023
Brian Castano for Teixeira’s WBO junior middleweight title in Indio, California on April 25 postponed.
From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2020
More recent big-hitters include John “The Beast” Mugabi, a frightening middleweight in the early 1980s, and Kassim Ouma, Uganda’s 2004 junior middleweight champion.
From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2018
He briefly held the new junior middleweight title in the early 1960s.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2013
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