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heavyweight

 noun
     
Related topics: Other Sports
heav‧y‧weight [countable]
1 someone or something that is very important or has a lot of influence:
one of the heavyweights of the movie industry
2DSO a boxer who weighs more than 86.18 kilograms, and who belongs to the heaviest weight class of boxers
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