bantamweight

[ UK /bˈɑːntɐmwˌe‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds
  2. weighs 115-126 pounds
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How To Use bantamweight In A Sentence

  • WBO super flyweight champion Jorge Arce (53-6-1, 40 KOs) stopped Cecilio Santos (24-13-3, 14 KOs) in the seventh round of a non-title bantamweight fight in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. BoxingScene.com
  • •At Osaka, Japan — Nobuo Nashiro (13-1-1) vs. Hugo Cazares (30-6), for WBA junior bantamweight title. Upcoming boxing schedule
  • The face is furious, the eyes popping with rage: Gerry Marsden looks like the combative bantamweight boxer he used to be before he became a pop star.
  • So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
  • Morales in five fights prior to the title clash against Montiel had fought as a super bantamweight. BoxingScene.com
  • Since then six more weight divisions have been added to include the mini-flyweight and jr. flyweight, jr. bantamweight and jr. featherweight, super-middleweight and cruiserweight divisions. PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed
  • With only six competitors in the class, the bantamweights were the smallest group any way you look at it.
  • He has been campaigning in the junior flyweight, flyweight and junior bantamweight divisions, destroying every opponent with frightening aplomb.
  • Barry McGuigan's "Cyclone: My Story" is published by Ebury £18.99 v Tumat Sugolik 1978 McGuigan was only 17 when he fought at the Commonwealth Games but still won the bantamweight gold medalv Valerio Nati 1983 The win established McGuigan as No1 contender for the world title. Barry McGuigan's past compels him to make Carl Frampton the future
  • The North West's other contenders are all Liverpool based - bantamweight Mark Moran, light middleweight Paul Smith and light heavyweight Courtney Fry.
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