junior middleweight
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
The day before his April bout in Las Vegas with the junior middleweight contender James Kirkland, Nobuhiro Ishida met with the HBO announcers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2012
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