How To Use Featherweight In A Sentence
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I wouldn't go to featherweight for a no-mark.
The Sun
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Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
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He won the WBC super-featherweight title in 1998, and with an abundance of natural talent was reckoned a far better fighter than Hamed.
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Sure, there's plenty to be said about Picasso and Ingres but a featherweight intellect like him can barely lift his prose above the absurd.
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I moved up from flyweight to featherweight, and, by 1960, had won the British title.
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Darlington featherweight Jacob Smith signed a pro contract yesterday.
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So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
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My Featherweight Deluxe had eye-popping wood, flawless checkering, a fine trigger, excellent fit and finish, and superior accuracy.
The Model 70 Reborn
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The British former world featherweight champion moulded his flamboyant style on Ali.
The Sun
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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.
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Some confessors there be who laugh within their hearts at these sorrows of lovers, as if they were mere "nugae" and featherweights: others there are who wax impatient, holding all love for sin in some degree, and forgetting that Monseigneur St. Peter himself was a married man, and doubtless had his own share of trouble and amorous annoy when he was winning the lady his wife, even as other men.
A Monk of Fife
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I used to box with Paul back in 1987 when I was then a featherweight and he was a flyweight, so we built up quite a good relationship.
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We also have Andy Morris, another undefeated featherweight and Gary Young, a light welter from Scotland who is really doing very well and is undefeated in ten fights.
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The co-feature will have two undefeated featherweights, both former USA Olympians going at it.
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At 7.5 pounds, it is approximately a quarter pound heavier than standard Featherweights.
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But, no matter how good they are, featherweights never capture the American imagination like heavyweights, and the Prince soon tasted defeat at the gloves of Marco Antonio Barrera.
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The final undercard bout featured featherweights Rogers Mtagwa and Valdemir Pereira.
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You can only speculate at how Phoenix featherweight Louie Espinoza would have fared in the bout.
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Hey, everybody thinks my secret desire is to be the first female featherweight boxing champ.
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The provisional squad has light-flyweight Gabriel Kabwe, bantamweight Lovemore Tembo and featherweights Otis Bwalya, Jonathan Mwila, Victor Kaonga, Tendai Shumba and Abias Silupumbwe.
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One of the most devastating punchers to fight at featherweight, he ignored the basics.
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At the 2003 Pan American Games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
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You must remember that he used to bash junior featherweights, and it will be interesting to see if he will handle going up a division.
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Even at 48, his physique is as honed as a featherweight boxer's.
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Because of constantly having to boil down to the flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight limits it stunted his growth.
The Sun
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Pigcawayan, North Cotabato - Junior featherweight Rolando Magbanua and mini-flyweight Rommel Asenjo more than lived up to their townmates 'expectations after scoring impressive victories against their Thai opponents in this frontier town of about
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Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
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Offer a big enough purse, and probably any of the featherweights we discussed might compete in Glasgow.
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But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw.
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The British former world featherweight champion moulded his flamboyant style on Ali.
The Sun
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The academic, who is the Oxford University Professor of Historical Theology, shows him to be an intellectual featherweight on religious topics.
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Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
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The former WBA world featherweight champion was also banned from driving for four years.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the 2003 games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
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When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
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The latest crop of shell pants are featherweight, bombproof, and cut for freedom of movement.
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His empathy with the fighter comes from his own experience as a boxer - he was a useful featherweight forced to retire early through injury.
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He was going to enter as a featherweight but was struggling to make that weight and he's more comfortable now at lightweight.
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So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
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But Ncita laughed off the Tanzanian's assertion saying his charge was the best fighter from the junior bantamweight to the junior featherweight divisions.
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After Tapia vacated the title in favour of a fruitless attempt to dethrone featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera, Medina faced fellow Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in February for the vacant IBF featherweight championship.
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So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
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Growing up in the 1920s, his closest buddy was Fats Domino before his family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Lee took up featherweight boxing.
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The South African team consists of two other boxers - featherweight Mathebula and Venter, a light heavyweight.
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Sonsona who decided to move up two weight divisions told us he expects a "very competitive fight" when he meets undefeated Vazquez Jr for the WBO super bantamweight title relinquished by Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez who moved up to featherweight and won the title with a battering of Steven Luevano.
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That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
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A punch from Naseem misses Vuyani during their World Boxing Organisation featherweight title fight in London on Saturday night.
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The final undercard bout featured featherweights Rogers Mtagwa and Valdemir Pereira.
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The list of beaten opponents by Sanchez reads like a who's who list of the great featherweights of his era.
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‘I know people still doubt me when I say this but there is no boxer in the junior bantamweight, bantamweight and even junior featherweight who can stand in front of Vabaza and not feel the heat,’ he insists.
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Steve Bell is a real boxer and he won British Amateur Boxing Association's featherweight title in 1998, the same year this film was made.
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The British former world featherweight champion moulded his flamboyant style on Ali.
The Sun
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I truly thought that this chapter in the book of featherweights would be dominated by the better boxer, and maybe it was, only the better boxer, at least this night, was not Marco.
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But the featherweight champion has vowed to carry on regardless of his snub and is now praying his promoters can land a big name for him to fight at that venue on June 21.
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If there is a fight WBC featherweight Champion Eric Morales will be on the card.
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Loren was 5ft 8in of Italian voluptuousness, while Ladd was 5ft 5in tall and, in his own words, a man with "the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight".
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The two stands are protected by a featherweight roof of ribbed metal panels slung between a network of steel tensile cables.
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When Michael Brodie of Manchester fought South Korea's Injin Chi last October for the vacant World Boxing Council featherweight title, by common consent it was one of Britain's best fights of 2003.
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Japanese had featherweight monoplanes and twinfloat seaplane fighters that sacrificed everything else for incredible maneuverability.
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Michael Brodie's heroic win over Maurin has earned him special praise from referee Richie Davies, who handled the gruelling World Boxing Federation featherweight title fight last month.
