Career Quote by James Toney

Moving to middleweight had a massive impact on my training regime and my mental space leading into everyday training. I was training for the…

— Robert Whittaker

At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.

— Lyoto Machida

Getting to fight at my natural weight, that was huge for me.

— Sage Northcutt

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

— Oscar De La Hoya

Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.

— Michael Chiesa

You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to…

— Marvin Hagler

I feel like I'm one of the strong middleweights, physically.

— Gegard Mousasi

At 140lb, what else was there left for me to do? I'd completed boxing in a sense and won every single belt you can…

— Josh Taylor

I'm kinda almost a middleweight. I walk around 185 and I'm fighting at lightweight.

— Gilbert Burns

I want to defend my belt against all the middleweights that are the biggest threats supposedly before I jump up in weight.

— Israel Adesanya

I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me,…

— Ann Wolfe

My first four fights in amateur at middleweight, and the first four professional were at welterweight. And I just kind of went down from…

— Alexander Volkanovski