heavyweight
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“It was a heavyweight fight,” Nickerson said of the first half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In this corner, the reigning heavyweight champ: a version of every Oscar-baiting, prestige movie you’ve ever seen.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Fury has twice lost to Usyk, with the two-time undisputed heavyweight champion now working with Joshua as part of his training and coaching team.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Itauma showed that many of the qualities which looked spectacular against lesser opposition still worked against a genuine world-level heavyweight.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
He was a historian of boxing lore and could narrate all twenty-six rounds of Jack Johnson’s famous bout in Havana in 1915 when the first black heavyweight champion of the world lost his title.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He said San Francisco assembled political heavyweights to support its bid; he instead brought department heads to the table — “the people they’re actually going to work with.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
—In Asia, South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.0%, with chip-making index heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics advancing 0.6% and 1.75%, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
If we look at matches against modern-day heavyweights Australia and India, Root plummets down the list even further - down in 10th, with twice as many losses as wins.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The latest bounce has been helped by some bargain-buying and government measures to stabilise retail investor volatility, as well as strong earnings reports from market heavyweights including Amazon, Microsoft and more recently CoreWeave.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The heavyweights pushed and butted each other clumsily.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
