Middleweight is a weight class division in combat sports. ==Boxing== 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 middlewe... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleweight
[MMA] The middleweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes: ==Ambiguity and clarification== For the sake of uniformity, many mixed martial arts websites refer to competitors between 171 and 185 lb (77.5 and 84 kg) as middleweights. This encompasses the former PRIDE Welterweight division (183 lb /... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleweight_(MMA)