junior bantamweight

noun

a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kilograms), between flyweight and bantamweight.

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Israel Gonzalez for Moloney’s WBA ‘regular’ junior bantamweight title in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 17 canceled.

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Armory and the then-MCI Center, including winning the vacant International Boxing Federation World Junior Bantamweight Championship in 1999.

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“I found out with a phone call from my ex-wife, his mother,” said the elder Johnson, a 47-year-old District native and the former flyweight and junior bantamweight champion of the world.

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Israel Gonzalez for Moloney’s WBA ‘regular’ junior bantamweight title in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 17 postponed.

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Juan Francisco Estrada is the clear champion at junior bantamweight, while Naoya Inoue is the No 1 man at bantamweight, and yet they are just about the same size.