Similar words: overweight, over weight, underweight, featherweight, weightlifter, lightweight, weight, welter. Meaning: n. 1. a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeple chase or hurdle race) 2. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds 3. a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds 4. a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds.
Random good picture Not show
1 Throughout his career, he fought as a welterweight / at welterweight.
2 He even boxed as a welterweight until his hands became too mangled to keep fighting.
3 But ex-light welterweight champ Terry is worried about his brother's children.
4 Berto is the WBC welterweight titleholder.
5 Everyone else in the welterweight division won a vacant belt.
6 If there were big fights at junior welterweight, that's where we would be.
7 Joshua is a big, strong welterweight, so we have a task in front of us.
8 Mayweather Sr. trains junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton,[www.Sentencedict.com] whom Mayweather Jr. knocked out in December 2007 before announcing his retirement six months later.
9 That he happens to reside in the welterweight division makes him all the more dangerous and much more intriguing.
10 The only fight at welterweight that most fans want to see is Pacquiao against Floyd Mayweather.
11 Yes, the former WBC World Welterweight champ drives ... a Smart car.
12 In the co-feature, former world champion Pernell Whitaker won a unanimous decision over Andrei Pestriaev in a welterweight bout.
13 The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division.
14 De La Hoya, 26, has won world titles in three divisions: lightweight, light-welter and welterweight.
15 Boxing: Gold medals are awarded in light flyweight, bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight.
16 Likewise before the Hatton bout, and this time he came in at 138 pounds for the junior welterweight title bout.
17 The fight he wants and one that would be a closet classic were it to be made this year is one with another unbeaten super welterweight prospect, Alfredo Angulo.
18 Marquez had very good hand speed at featherweight and junior lightweight, but he's lost a degree of quickness at lightweight and one can only assume that he will lose a little more at welterweight.
19 Benny "Kid" Paret was a Cuban boxer who won the welterweight title for the first time in 1960, but lost it seven months later when Emile Griffith knocked him out.
20 Kerry's debate skills, saying he has "the speed of a welterweight".
21 "Manny's best weight is 140 pounds, " he said. "We put on weight because the biggest fights are at welterweight.
22 Cotto also has to train very hard to make the welterweight limit.
23 So I think Freddie looks at Pacquiao as a natural junior welterweight at this stage of his career.
24 From 1980 to 1982, he was the World Boxing Council's junior welterweight champion.
25 The robot boxing looks authentic thanks to the special ring advisor on the movie, former welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard.
26 They said she hadn't explained how she had stayed in the apartment in northeastern Brazil for ten hours after the former welterweight champion was apparently strangled with a handbag strap.
27 Mosley is the opposite. He was mediocre at 154 pounds (as his controversial rematch victory over De La Hoya proved) and appears more sharp and versatile now that he's back down at welterweight.
28 Mark Melligen of the Philippines, right, takes a punch from Gabriel Martinez of Mexico during their 10-round welterweight fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Feb. 19.
29 Previous estimates of M87's black hole mass registered at some 3 billionsuns, still 1,000 times the size of the Milky Way's welterweight black hole.
30 If I did, I wouldn't have accepted to fight Gabriel Mapouka( in France) for the European light welterweight title.
More similar words: overweight, over weight, underweight, featherweight, weightlifter, lightweight, weight, welter, weighty, weighted, swelter, net weight, weighting, lose weight, gain weight, weightless, gross weight, carry weight, heavyweight, weightiness, put on weight, sweltering, helter-skelter, middleweight, atomic weight, weightlifting, weight lifting, weights and measures, weightlessness, freighter.