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featherweight

[feth-er-wayt] / ˈfɛð ərˌweÉŠt /










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On Saturday in Tampa, Florida, Cyborg will defend her PFL featherweight title against fellow Brazilian Ketlen Vieira in what could be the final bout of her storied career.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Rapp challenged for the WBC women's featherweight championship in June, losing to Tiara Brown in Orlando, which left her with an 8-1-1 record.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Topuria won the UFC featherweight championship by knocking out Alexander Volkanovski in February 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Take Katz’s T.50: It combines a race-car-like V-12 engine with a featherweight body and can go from 0 to 60 mph in a tick under three seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

What Cavendish was trying to do was measure gravity at this extremely featherweight level.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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