Middleweight vs Superwelterweight - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
(countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
(countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
* 2009 , Guy Julier, ?Liz Moor, Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
(boxing) Pertaining to a weight class between 67.7 and 69.9 kilograms, at the boundary between middleweight and welterweight
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 6, author=Richard Sandomir, title=Mayweather Wins Decision Over De La Hoya, work=New York Times
, passage=Floyd Mayweather Jr. had just defeated Oscar De La Hoya in their superwelterweight title bout in a split decision Saturday night when a controversy threatened to delay, if not upend, his victory. }}
As a noun middleweight
is (uncountable) a weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports.As an adjective superwelterweight is
(boxing) pertaining to a weight class between 677 and 699 kilograms, at the boundary between middleweight and welterweight.middleweight
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(wikipedia middleweight)- And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.
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