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featherweight

[ UK /fˈɛðəwˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛðɝˌweɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
  2. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
  3. weighs 126-139 pounds

How To Use featherweight In A Sentence

  • That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
  • Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
  • The former WBA world featherweight champion was also banned from driving for four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the 2003 games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
  • 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.
  • The latest crop of shell pants are featherweight, bombproof, and cut for freedom of movement.
  • His empathy with the fighter comes from his own experience as a boxer - he was a useful featherweight forced to retire early through injury.
  • He was going to enter as a featherweight but was struggling to make that weight and he's more comfortable now at lightweight.
  • So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
  • 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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