We have all read in all the newspapers in the year of grace 1912 that a public match in the interests of charity had been arranged between him and the middleweight champion of Europe, Georges Carpentier.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
We've been letting a champion middleweight blush unseen under our very roof tree."
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
They were good, straight blows, for boxing had been his favourite amusement at Sandhurst where he was a middleweight champion.
"Love Eternal"
H. Rider Haggard