1.   Former International Boxing Federation middleweight champ James Toney will resurface as a cruiserweight Sunday at Celebrity Theater against little-known Onebo Maxine.

2.   Gonzalez, the former World Boxing Council middleweight champ, disposed of Bert Granciosa of Sumar, Philippines, by a TKO at the end of the third round.

3.   Nobody can tell you who the middleweight champ is, but everyone knows the heavyweight champ.

4.   Newman plays real-life middleweight champ Rocky Graziano, who battled his way out of poverty and reform school to make it in the ring.

5.   Reid, the Olympic champion, is getting his first world-title shot when he faces WBA middleweight champ Boudouani.

6.   Right now, he has Gil Clancy, who, years ago, brought along former welter and middleweight champ Emile Griffith.

7.   She resembled the venerable Boston pugilistic trainer, Al Lacy, whose head jerked every time his middleweight champ, Paul Pender, got hit.

8.   The big punching middleweight champ once knocked down Jack Johnson.

9.   The undisputed middleweight champ, coming off his spectacular knockout of Trinidad, is stronger, equally quick and many would say more gifted than De La Hoya.

10.   While Hopkins was at least trying to make history by fighting his way into the final, Holmes was making himself a poor excuse for a middleweight champ.