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junior middleweight

American  

noun

  1. a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kilograms), between welterweight and middleweight.


junior middleweight British  

noun

    1. a professional boxer weighing 147–154 pounds (66.5–70 kg)

    2. ( as modifier ) Compare light middleweight

      the junior-middleweight championship

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“In the junior middleweight division, everyone always went around Mike McCallum, and that says a lot about him,” Jones said.

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

Marquez, known as El Diamante, won the junior middleweight, or 154-pound, title in 1997 and retired in 2008.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

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

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