Cruiserweight

Cruiserweight is a weight class in boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight. Before the advent of the current cruiserweight class, "light heavyweight" and "cruiserweight" were sometimes used interchangeably in Great Britain. The current weight limit for the division is 200 pounds. This limit dates from 2003. When originally established, the weight limit was 190 pounds (although in 1981 the World Boxing Council (WBC) set the limit at 195 p... more

Cruiserweight is a weight class in boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight. Before the advent of the current cruiserweight class, "light heavyweight" and "cruiserweight" were sometimes used interchangeably in Great Britain. The current weight limit for the division is 200 pounds. This limit dates from 2003. When originally established, the weight limit was 190 pounds (although in 1981 the World Boxing Council (WBC) set the limit at 195 pounds, but later lowered that to 190 pounds). The term "cruiserweight" had also been used in the United Kingdom as an alternative name for the light heavyweight division during the mid-1900s. The division was established in order to accommodate smaller heavyweight boxers who could not compete with the growing size of boxers in that division. While many great heavyweight champions (such as Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis) weighed around 190 pounds in their career, during the 1970s it became fairly standard that heavyweight boxers weighed 220... less