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featherweight

[feth-er-wayt] / ˈfɛð ərˌweɪt /










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In 2009, the Brazilian knocked out American Gina Carano to win the Strikeforce featherweight title in a landscape-shifting moment for MMA.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

England's Lone'er Kavanagh takes on Uzebekistan's Ramazan Tamirov in a flyweight contest earlier on the card, while English featherweight Arnold Allen faces American Aaron Pico.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Topuria won the UFC featherweight championship by knocking out Alexander Volkanovski in February 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Take Katz’s T.50: It combines a race-car-like V-12 engine with a featherweight body and can go from 0 to 60 mph in a tick under three seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

What Cavendish was trying to do was measure gravity at this extremely featherweight level.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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