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heavy middleweight

British  

noun

  1. a professional wrestler weighing 177–187 pounds (81–85 kg)

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Hickey was in the heavy middleweight class while he was still a bantam.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest

You ought to get either a heavy middleweight or a light heavyweight; you will be a heavyweight yourself by the time you have filled out.

From Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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