Sentences with phrase «for middleweight»

Plus, Peter «Kid Chocolate» Quillin takes on Gabriel Rosado for the Middleweight World Championship.

Michael Bisping has waited eight years to fight for the middleweight title since joining the division; the problem is he's fighting Luke Rockhold who submitted him back in 2014.

Let no due credit be denied Porsche, which took Sebring's other major prize — the GT trophy for middleweight cars — on the impeccable maneuvering of the U.S.'s Bob Holbert and Don Wester.

He's very lanky and has a very long reach for a middleweight.

Hall has stated in the past that he cuts from about 210 lbs and there are many others who cuts much more weight for middleweight.

Not exact matches

Fortunately for the fan, when he arrives to pick up his takeout, he was greeted by UFC Hall of Famer Forrest Griffin and current UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold to view some of the UFC 197 preliminary fights.

Boxing Winky Wright can't win middleweight belts on defense alone Roy Jones Jr.'s battle royal with Prince Badi Ajamu is set for... Boise?

Thirty - six - year - old Georges St - Pierre (25 - 2 MMA, 19 - 2 UFC), one of the greatest fighters of our generation, will mark his return on Saturday night at UFC 217 in New York City for a shot at the middleweight belt against Michael Bisping (30 - 7 MMA, 20 - 7 UFC).

Luke Rockhold can become the interim UFC Middleweight Champion with a win on Saturday, but the same can't be said for Yoel Romero.

The match - ups for the opening quarterfinals are: Holmes vs. Prater in the heavies; Cassidy vs. Taylor in the light heavies; the sharp Colbert against Chiaverini in the middleweights; Randy Shields vs. Juan Cantres in the welterweights; Pat Dolan vs. Johnny Sullivan in the lightweights and Walter Seeley vs. Hilbert Stevenson in the feathers.

He fought his way back up for a while, beating Curtis Parker in 1984 to take the USBA middleweight crown, a minor title, but enough to start talk of a fight with Hagler, and an opportunity at a really big win, a chance to grab the titles that mattered, those administered by the WBC / WBA / IBF and The Ring.

Wright (49 - 3) gave up his junior middleweight belts for a shot at middleweight Taylor, but first he must dispatch the acrobatic Soliman (above), who at 31 - 7 is the IBF's No. 1 contender.

Still, in November he got a shot at the WBA middleweight title, fighting Jorge Castro for $ 25,000 in Argentina, his last chance.

Dowdney, a former British universities light middleweight boxing champion, came to Brazil in 1995 to study street children in the northern city of Recife for his dissertation in social anthropology.

Sugar Ray Robinson, flashing best form of comeback campaign, took it easy for two rounds, smashed Ted Olla with series of thunderous rights to head in third, had rugged young middleweight in bad shape when referee stopped fight at Milwaukee.

This Saturday in Washington, D.C., Jones will let his fists do the talking in his first major title bout, a matchup with Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight crown.

King approached Jones last fall, seeking an opponent for Julian Jackson, a King client (and the WBC middleweight champion until he was knocked out by Gerald McClellan on May 8).

Middleweight Lieut. R. Wayne Baugh - man wrestled with an injured shoulder and torn rib cartilage and still beat Canada's Ed Millard for the title.

The former matinee idol, who won a gold medal in front of his countrymen at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and later held the world middleweight title for most of three years, had been beating himself up, guilt - ridden that for all his success in and out of the ring, he hadn't done enough to help others.

The reason for this tensed - up optimism was that, while the light and middleweights were dandy in their classes, men like Dube, Bednarski and others — the superheavies, the whales — had a more special mission in mind.

By contrast, USADA charged $ 36,000 to administer drug testing for the April 11, 2015, middleweight encounter between Andy Lee and Peter Quillin.

Rockhold and Romero should combine for an excellent middleweight contest, but just before that, there's potential for a huge knockout as heavyweights Mark Hunt and Curtis Blaydes go toe - to - toe.

I hope countless middleweight fighters call out Chris for doing the soccer flop equivalent for MMA.

A former IBF middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight champion, the 38 - year - old Toney, who weighed in at 229 pounds, tested positive for boldenone and stanazolol.

He is a natural welterweight who graduated into the middleweight division for a big - money crack at Ray Robinson and then could not reduce his way back to his natural habitat.

Besides the postponement or cancellation of all pro and most college team sports in the metropolitan area, one major individual - sport event, the Bernard Hopkins - Felix Trinidad middleweight title - unification bout scheduled for last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, was shelved.

As a boxer, Honeyghan looks to America for inspiration — he frequently trains in the U.S. before major fights, and his best friend is Buster Drayton, the IBF junior middleweight champion, who lives in Philadelphia.

The 12 boxers, who won five bronze medals in Atlanta in addition to Reid's light middleweight gold, have a combined record of 156 -2-2 in the punch - for - pay ranks.

It was a bout for the UFC Interim Middleweight Championship, or at least it was for Rockhold.

Spider Webb and Rory Calhoun, contenders for Carmen Basilio's middleweight crown, rocked the Cow Palace with a furious fight

Five times the middleweight champion, Ray Robinson discovers at 45 that it is far better to retire than to keep struggling for the unattainable

Rousey won't be there but top UFC officials, as well as former UFC middleweight champion and Long Island native Chris Weider will hold a press conference in Albany to push for the bill's passage.

For example, in 2008 a source of X-rays seemed to be a middleweight black hole, but only one measurement was made and the finding was not confirmed.

There are no firm detections so far, but a globular cluster called G1 is the best candidate for hosting a middleweight black hole, based on the motion of stars at its centre, Holley - Bockelmann says.

«Before our discovery, we didn't even know for sure that these [middleweight] black holes existed,» Cadonati said at the press conference announcing GW170104.

The finding is evidence for the existence of middleweight black holes, with a mass of around 1000 Suns.

I remember competing as a natural middleweight when I was 22 and only eating 25g of protein per meal for 5 meals a day (along with carbs and some fat) and was in great shape.

Pro MMA fighter Bruno Carvalho — then a Top 10 Middleweight in Europe — had contracted me to design his MMA workout for his upcoming fight.

Gastelum was a slight underdog in the run - up to the Kennedy fight but the contest was such a one - sided affair in the favour of Gastelum he has decided to stay at middleweight for this match - up.

During the period Bisping participated in fights which didn't correlate directly to the rankings the other middleweights have been held up, originally Robert Whittaker was pencilled in to defend the undisputed title against Rockhold but an injury resulted in Romero taking his place and the fight will now be for another Interim Championship.

Moving forward there should be a clearer picture for the rest of the middleweights once order has been restored when the victor of Romero vs Rockhold gets matched up with a healthy Robert Whittaker sometime in 2018.

In the highly competitive UFC middleweight division, Yoel Romero & Luke Rockhold have hovered around the top spots in the rankings for several years without actually crossing paths, at UFC 221 they finally face off and attempt to add some much - needed stability in the turbulent middleweight division.

Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin meet at the Barclays Center for the WBA Middleweight World Championship on Saturday, December 5th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.

In co-features, welterweights Jo Jo Dan (33 - 2, 18 KOs) and Kevin Bizier (23 - 1, 16 KOs) go for a 12 - round rematch, super middleweight Andre Dirrell (23 - 1, 16 KOs) takes on Derek Edwards (27 - 3, 14 KOs) and light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (6 - 0, 6 KOs) faces Jeff Page Jr. (15 - 0, 10 KOs).

In co-features, Shawn Porter (23 -0-1, 14 KOs) takes on Paulie Malignaggi (33 - 5, 7 KOs) for the IBF Welterweight World Championship and undefeated WBO Middleweight World Champion Peter Quillin (30 - 0, 22 KOs) defends his title against Lukas Konecny (50 - 4, 23 KOs).

A triple - bill of knockout kings go into battle to secure their world championship titles: Shawn «Showtime» Porter (24 -0-1, 15 KOs) defends his belt against unbeaten welterweight Kell Brook (32 - 0, 22 KOs); super middleweight Anthony «The Dog» Dirrell (26 -0-1, 22 KOs) goes after Sakio «The Scorpion» Bika (32 -5-2, 21 KOs) in hot pursuit of the crown; and Omar Figueroa (23 -0-1, 17 KOs) risks his lightweight title for the second time against challenger Daniel «Tremendo» Estrada (32 -2-1, 24 KOs).

Newly crowned champion James «Chunky» DeGale (21 - 1, 14 KOs) takes on former champ Lucian «Le Tombeur» Bute (32 - 2, 25 KOs) in a battle for the super middleweight title.

Defending champion Daniel «The Miracle Man» Jacobs (30 - 1, 27 KOs) puts his middleweight crown on the line against Peter «Kid Chocolate» Quillin (32 -0-1, 23 KOs) in a battle for Brooklyn bragging rights.

A triple - header of dynamic American fighters take on Brooklyn's biggest stage: Danny «Swift» Garcia (28 - 0, 16 KOs) battles «Lightning» Rod Salka (19 - 3, 3 KOs) in a 10 - round super lightweight bout; Lamont Peterson (32 -2-1, 16 KOs) faces off against top prospect Edgar «El Chamaco» Santana (29 - 4, 20 KOs) for the junior welterweight crown; and Brooklyn's own «Miracle Man» Daniel Jacobs (27 - 1, 24 KOs) challenges Jarrod «Left Jab» Fletcher (18 - 1, 10 KOs) for the vacant middleweight championship.

Showtime Boxing: WBC Super Middleweight Champion Badou Jack and Lucian Bute step on the scales before they face off, along with a co-feature between James DeGale and Rogelio Medina for the IBF Super Middleweight title - live Saturday, April 30 at 10PM ET / 7PM PT.