1.   A great middleweight boxer is no less deserving of respect than a comparable heavyweight, is he?

2.   He looks like a middleweight boxer, too small for a linebacker.

3.   He was just as likely to cast a middleweight boxer as he was a burlesque comic.

4.   I finished with a discussion of great middleweight boxers.

5.   Italian middleweight boxer Fabrizio De Chiara was in a coma with a head injury Sunday after collapsing in the ring during a title bout.

6.   The whereabouts of a middleweight boxer scheduled to face Sugar Ray Leonard this summer remained unknown, three days after he failed to appear for a bout.

7.   Italian middleweight boxer Fabrizio De Chiara was fighting for his life here on Sunday after collapsing in the ring and being rushed to hospital in a coma.