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Recent Examples of light heavyweight
One is a light heavyweight title defense against current middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis, who has indicated his desire to eventually move up to challenge the Brazilian.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
In July, Pereira followed that setback with a win over former UFC light heavyweight title holder, Jan Błachowicz, in his UFC debut at 205 pounds.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The Brazilian captured kickboxing world titles at middleweight and light heavyweight with GLORY Kickboxing, then switched to MMA and won UFC championships at middleweight and light heavyweight to become a two-sport, two-division world champion.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Pereira captured the middleweight and light heavyweight kickboxing world titles in GLORY before transitioning his skills to the cage and switching sports to mixed martial arts.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
In July, Pereira followed that setback with a win over former UFC light heavyweight title holder, Jan Błachowicz, in his UFC debut at 205 pounds.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The Brazilian captured kickboxing world titles at middleweight and light heavyweight with GLORY Kickboxing, then switched to MMA and won UFC championships at middleweight and light heavyweight to become a two-sport, two-division world champion.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Pereira captured the middleweight and light heavyweight kickboxing world titles in GLORY before transitioning his skills to the cage and switching sports to mixed martial arts.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for light heavyweight
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After knocking out Charles Jourdain in late June, the 27-year-old moved up to lightweight to face hard-hitting Drew Dober on the main card of UFC Denver.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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The fight card will also see the return to the UFC of featherweight veteran Jeremy Stephens, who steps up to lightweight to take on another UFC returnee, former two-division Cage Warriors champion Mason Jones.—
Simon Head,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Russian middleweight took down the 6-foot-4 Reese (8-2) early in the round and fended off submission efforts and appeared to be working for position before unleashing a series of thunderous strikes.—
Brian Martin,
Orange County Register,
18 Jan. 2025
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Following a split decision loss to future UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya in April 2018, Vettori put together a five-fight unbeaten streak.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Shevchenko won that bantamweight fight by split decision.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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So far, the bantamweight, women's flyweight, welterweight, and featherweight rosters have been fully revealed.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Sean Brady silenced all but the biggest naysayers on Saturday, defeating former UFC welterweight champion Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC London.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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One of the best welterweight fighters not currently signed to the UFC returns to action looking to put himself in the frame for his first shot in the Octagon.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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In that contest, former UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno faces recent UFC title challenger Steve Erceg.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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So far, the bantamweight, women's flyweight, welterweight, and featherweight rosters have been fully revealed.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Joshua won Olympic gold in 2012 at superheavyweight, then won 22 straight pro bouts and claimed three of the four major sanctioning bodies’ titles — all before his U.S. debut against Andy Ruiz at Madison Square Garden in June 2019.—
Morgan Campbell,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2022
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Klitschko won the Olympic gold for Ukraine in men's superheavyweight boxing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.—
Chiara Vercellone,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2022
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In the main event, former UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes will battle for the vacant UFC featherweight belt.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Two very exciting featherweights in the ProBox TV Contender Series face off on Saturday night when Arnold Khegai, out of Ukraine, takes on Joet Gonzalez of California.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Light heavyweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light%20heavyweight. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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