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/flˈaɪweɪt/
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NOUN
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds
- weighs no more than 115 pounds
How To Use flyweight In A Sentence
- World flyweight champion in the 1930s. Times, Sunday Times
- He has been campaigning in the junior flyweight, flyweight and junior bantamweight divisions, destroying every opponent with frightening aplomb.
- But I've always maintained Dale is a flyweight, and Dale has been in touch this week and agreed.
- 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.
- This clash of Premier League heavyweights had resembled a flyweight contest until it finally got a bit tasty towards the end. The Sun
- The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight, with the referee on the cruiser's side.
- Next stop, hopefully, the light flyweight title held by Dickie Camacho.
- In other words, he was a wee slip of a thing, a flyweight who sometimes had the additional curse of bandy legs caused by childhood rickets, a dreadful disease usually caused by a lack of vitamin D.
- Following a year full of setbacks, the ALA fighters started out strong this year with a string of successes, namely, the successful US debut of Melligen, the triumphant comeback fights of AJ Banal and Czar Amonsot and the title defense of World Boxing Organization mini-flyweight champion Donnie "Ahas" Nietes a week ago. Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
- 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