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(boxing) Pertaining to a weight class between 67.7 and 69.9 kilograms, at the boundary between middleweight and welterweight.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. had just defeated Oscar De La Hoya in their superwelterweight title bout in a split decision Saturday night when a controversy threatened to delay, if not upend, his victory.
Use superwelterweight when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Superwelterweight means (boxing) Pertaining to a weight class between 67.7 and 69.9 kilograms, at the boundary between middleweight and welterweight.
Common synonyms include light middleweight, junior middleweight.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. had just defeated Oscar De La Hoya in their superwelterweight title bout in a split decision Saturday night when a controversy threatened to delay, if not upend, his victory.
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