featherweight
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The bout was scheduled for five rounds in the featherweight division.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
On Saturday, the 39-year-old is set to end a 10-year retirement from MMA when she faces fellow American Gina Carano in a featherweight bout at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Case in point: the featherweight quilted Celestia jacket with a highly reflective shell that, according to the designer, “comes alive with motion.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Moving up to featherweight is an option, but the division lacks household names and a jump to super-featherweight is likely a step too far.
From BBC • May 2, 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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