Middleweight

Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.

In Boxing, the middleweight division is above 154 lbs (70.5 kg) and up to 160 lbs (72.5 kg).

Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897. Chandler won, becoming known as the American middleweight champion.