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9 unusual facts about middleweight


AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament 2008 – Middleweight

Middleweights were limited to those boxers weighing between 69 - 75 kilograms.

Elias Nashivela

A middleweight, Nashivela competed for Namibia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Middleweight division.

George Tahdooahnippah

On September 12, 2008, Tahdooahnippah defeated Jonathan Corn with a seventh round TKO to win the vacant Native American Boxing Council Super Middleweight Championship.

George "Comanche Boy" Tahdooahnippah (born December 3, 1978) is an American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division and is the current World Boxing Council (WBC) Continental America's middleweight and Native American Boxing Council Super Middleweight Champion.

Johnny Douglas

Douglas was an excellent Middleweight boxer becoming Olympic champion at the 1908 Games held in London.

Ricardo Arona

Arona surprised everyone when he defeated Silva, who was the PRIDE Middleweight Champion at the time, by decision handing Silva his first middle weight defeat in PRIDE.

Virgil Lozano

In 2007 he became the Middleweight Champion and retained the belt until the promotion was terminated in 2008.

Lozano was the last Middleweight Champion of the Cage of Fire and Baja Cage Fighting MMA Promotions and a former member of Ken Shamrock's Lions Den fighting team during the late 90's, early 2000s.

On July 17, 2010 he fought against Greg Raedel for the BCF Middleweight Championship.


2011 World Taekwondo Championships – Men's middleweight

The Men's middleweight is a competition featured at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, South Korea on May 5 and May 6.

Ángel Espada

Espada became a world champion in a situation that could be described by some as bizarre: the undisputed world Welterweight champion of the era, José Nápoles, was to fight Carlos Monzón for the world's Middleweight title.

Antony Fowler

Antony Fowler (born 10 March 1991) is an English amateur boxer in the middleweight division who competed at the 2013 World Championships, won the Bronze medal along with Artem Chebotarev of Russia.

Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor

Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor, billed as "Next in Line", was a professional boxing match contested on July 16, 2005 for the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, IBF and The Ring middleweight championships.

Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight

The men's middleweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Boxing in the 1980s

March 10- Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed world Middleweight title with an eleventh round knockout of John Mugabi, Thomas Hearns wins the NABF Middleweight title with a first round knockout of James Shuler, and Gaby Canizales wins the WBA world Bantamweight title with a seventh round knockout of Richie Sandoval, who was critically injured and almost died in the days after the fight.

Bronco McKart

Nicknamed "Superman", McKart turned pro in 1992 and in 1996 captured the WBO Light Middleweight Title by beating Santos Cardona by TKO.

Carnival of Champions

In the second, Wilfred Benítez, also of Puerto Rico, would defend his WBC world Jr Middleweight championship against the former WBA Welterweight champion of the world Thomas Hearns, of Detroit, Michigan.

Charles Adamu

He fought seven more times winning on each occasion before on 1 August 2003 travelling to the United Kingdom and defeating England's Matthew Barney for the Commonwealth super middleweight title.

Colma, California

Famed middleweight world champion Stanley Ketchel held six bouts at the Mission Street Arena in Colma, including two world middleweight title bouts against Billy Papke and a world heavyweight title bout against Jack Johnson.

Danny Perez Ramírez

He holds wins over contender Julio César García, the 2006 winner of ESPN's The Contender Grady Brewer, and former IBA Middleweight Champion Jose Luis Zertuche.

Fighting Tommy Riley

Tommy is a former boxer who almost made the 2000 U.S. Olympic boxing team as a middleweight.

Gary Lockett

It was announced on 13 March 2008 that Locket would be the next opponent for the unified WBC and WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik.

Gerry Preston

Preston trained many of New Zealand's most successful boxers, including heavyweight champions David Tua and Jimmy Thunder, and New Zealand professional middleweight champion of the 1970s Billy Opetaia.

Jacques LeBlanc

Jacques LeBlanc (born August 5, 1964 in Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada) is a retired Acadian Middleweight Boxer.

Jean-Yves Thériault vs. Don Wilson

Jean-Yves Thériault vs. Don "The Dragon" Wilson was a middleweight kickboxing bout that took place in Montreal, Canada on December 18, 1984, which ended in a decision draw.

Jimmy Lange

Lange fought a rematch with Joey Gilbert on February 18, 2006 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA for the vacant NABO middleweight title.

Joachim Alcine

On September 15, 2012 Alcine faced Irish Brawler and two-time World Title Challenger Matthew Macklin (at the time 28-4, 19 KO's) on the HBO PPV Undercard of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sergio Martinez for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Joe Schilling

On December 5, 2010 in Los Angeles, he beat Chaz Mulkey by third round TKO in a WBC Muaythai United States Super Middleweight (-76.204 kg/168 lb) title eliminator.

Joseph Awinongya

Joseph Awinongya (born Asiaman, Ghana, 1974) is a professional boxing trainer and public speaker on sports who operates the Will County Boxing Gym in Joliet, Illinois, and is best known as the trainer of IBO International Middleweight champion Osumanu Adama.

Kid Azteca

He beat Garcia, who would hold Henry Armstrong to a tie as world Middleweight champion, by a ten round decision.

Kingsley Ikeke

He lost to Anthony Hanshaw on points, KOd Antwun Echols but was KOd by Armenia's Arthur Abraham in the fifth round for the vacant IBF middleweight title.

Lou Brouillard

BoxRec ranks Brouillard as the 14th best middleweight of all-time and the 3rd best Canadian boxer of all-time.

Lupe Aquino

Aquino, known as "Lupe", turned pro in 1981 and won the WBC Light Middleweight Title in 1987 with a decision over Duane Thomas.

Macfie

Bruce Macfie, (born 1978), Australian, professional middleweight kickboxer.

Marcel Thil

He became a major celebrity and as a good friend of celebrated actor Jean Gabin, he was the toast of Paris during the next four and a half years when he successfully defended his middleweight title 11 times.

Mariano Natalio Carrera

Carrera began his pro career in 2001 and captured the WBA middleweight title by knocking out Javier Castillejo in 2006.

Mark Muñoz

Muñoz was one of the chosen few to be relocated to WEC's sister promotion—which is also owned and produced by Zuffa—along with light heavyweight champion Steve Cantwell, light heavyweight contenders Brian Stann and Steve Steinbeiss and middleweight contenders Chael Sonnen and Nissen Osterneck.

Miguel Espino

This resulted in him getting a shot at WBC/WBO Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik.

Mike Massenzio

Massenzio then missed several months, before facing former WEC Light Heavyweight Champion Brian Stann, who was making his middleweight debut, on August 1, 2010 at UFC on Versus 2.

Mohamed Zaoui

Zaoui won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Newbridge boxing club

Middleweight Gary Lockett held the lightly regarded WBU belt but achieved fame when he unsuccessfully challenged world number one Kelly Pavlik in Atlantic City for the undisputed middleweight crown.

Nigel Benn

On 10 October 1992, Benn challenged Mauro Galvano for the WBC super-middleweight title in Palaghiaccio de Marino, Marino, Lazio, Italy.

Nina Solheim

In addition to a bronze medal from the 2001 World Taekwondo Championships in Jeju, South Korea, Solheim won the gold medal in middleweight (72 kg) at the 2006 World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand.

Osumanu Adama

Adama lost a decision for the IBF World Middleweight title in Tasmania in March 2012 against IBF World champion Daniel Geale.

Paddy Toland

Paddy Toland is the coach of the current Middle and Light Middleweight kickboxing champion, Tommy McCafferty (born in Letterkenny, Ireland) and the ISKA World Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion, Daniel Quigley (born in Derry City, Northern Ireland).

Piotr Wilczewski

In March 2011, he defeated Amin Asikainen by TKO in round 11 and became the European Super Middleweight Champion.

Riddick Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson

The fight took place in RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, was Bowe's second defense of the title he had won from Evander Holyfield in November 1992, and was the main event of a card that included a fight between Roy Jones, Jr. and Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight championship, which Jones won.

Ryan Rhodes

Rhodes lost his WBC light middleweight challenge bout against Saúl Álvarez with a technical knockout in the twelfth round on 18 June 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sergio Martinez vs. Matthew Macklin

Sergio Martinez vs. Matthew Macklin, billed as Get Your Irish Up, is a Boxing Middleweight bout for The Ring world title and universally recognized Middleweight Championship of the World.

Silvano Bertini

He retired in 1973 after failing to come out for the bell in the 12th round against Koichi Wajima for the WBC and WBA light middleweight titles.

Spencer Fearon

Kreshnik Qato also won the English middleweight title as part of the Hard Knocks team in June 2012.

Sport in Samoa

Several boxers and kickboxers are of Samoan descent, including former heavyweight contender David Tua, former middleweight champion Maselino Masoe, K-1 World Champion Mark Hunt as well as K-1 Super Heavyweight contenders Ray Sefo, Jason Suttie and also Jimmy Thunder.

Steve Bendall

His first defeat came in September 2004 when he lost to dangerous English fighter Scott Dann during his challenge for the Vacant British Middleweight Title.

Tarvis Simms

His childhood street bears the name "Travis Simms Way", named after his identical twin brother, Travis Simms, who is a former two-time World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion.

Tobia Giuseppe Loriga

Tobia Giuseppe Loriga (born March 1, 1977 in Crotone, Calabria, Italy) is an Italian boxer in the Middleweight division.

Weightlifting at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 75 kg

The men's middleweight event was part of the weightlifting programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics.


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