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| x Heavyweight | Muhammad Ali |
Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds (14 st 4 lb/91 kg) are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing...
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| Mike Tyson | |||
| William 'Iron' Hague | |||
| William Thomas Wells | |||
| Frank Goddard | |||
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| x Welterweight | Sugar Ray Leonard |
Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...
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| Thomas Hearns | |||
| Matt Wells | |||
| Eddie Thomas | |||
| Brian Curvis | |||
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| x Middleweight | Thomas Hearns |
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom...
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| Marvin Hagler | |||
| Dick Tiger | |||
| Joey Giardello | |||
| Emile Griffith | |||
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| x Light heavyweight | Thomas Hearns |
In boxing, the light heavyweight (above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]) division is the weight division between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has...
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| Willie Pastrano | |||
| José Torres | |||
| Dick Tiger | |||
| Bob Foster | |||
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| x Cruiserweight | Thomas Hearns |
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...
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| Evander Holyfield | |||
| David Haye | |||
| Marvin Camel | |||
| Carlos De Leon | |||
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| x Super middleweight | Thomas Hearns |
Super Middleweight is a boxing and Muay Thai weight division that has a weight limit of 168 pounds. There was interest in a division between middleweight (160 pounds) and light heavyweight (175 pounds) in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early...
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| Joe Calzaghe | |||
| Murray Sutherland | |||
| Chong Pal Park | |||
| Graciano Rocchigiani | |||
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| x Featherweight | Jim Driscoll |
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling (Greco-Roman).
A featherweight boxer weighs in at 126 pounds (57 kilos). In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have...
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| Ted "Kid" Lewis | |||
| George McKenzie | |||
| Nel Tarleton | |||
| Ronnie Clayton | |||
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| x Super Featherweight | Flash Elorde |
Super Featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms.
The Super featherweight division was established by the New York Walker Law in 1920, although first founded by the...
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| Yoshiaki Numata | |||
| Hiroshi Kobayashi | |||
| Diego Corrales | |||
| Johnny Dundee | |||
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| x Bantamweight | Johnny Coulon |
Bantamweight is usually a class in boxing or boxers who weigh between 112 and 118 pounds (between 51 and 54 kilograms). Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight. The name is derived from Bantam chickens.
The first...
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| Kid Williams | |||
| Pete Herman | |||
| Joe Lynch | |||
| Johnny Buff | |||
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| x Lightweight | Freddie Welsh |
Lightweight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for alcohol. It can be used as a synonym for "kind of." It may also...
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| Matt Wells | |||
| Fred Webster | |||
| Jack Kid Berg | |||
| Dave Charnley | |||
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| x Flyweight | Sid Smith |
Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb (51 kg) but above 108 lb (49 kg).
The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below...
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| Percy Jones | |||
| Jimmy Wilde | |||
| Jackie Brown | |||
| Benny Lynch | |||
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| x Light middleweight | Denny Moyer |
Light Middleweight (also known as Junior Middleweight or Super Welterweight), is a weight division in professional boxing, between 148-154 pounds (66.7-69.9 kg).
This division was established in 1962, when the Austrian Board of Control recognized a...
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| Ralph Dupas | |||
| Alessandro Mazzinghi | |||
| Nino Benvenuti | |||
| Ki Soo Kim | |||
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| x Super Flyweight | Jiro Watanabe |
Super Flyweight is a weight division in professional boxing. It is alternately referred to as Junior Bantamweight. The maximum weight for this division is 115 lbs (approx 52.16 kgs).
The first title match in this division was in 1980, when the World...
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| Vic Darchinyan | |||
| Ellyas Pical | |||
| Robert Quiroga | |||
| Harold Grey | |||
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| x Minimumweight | Ricardo Lopez |
Minimumweight (also referred to as strawweight or mini flyweight) is a weight category in professional boxing where boxers may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg). This is a relatively new weight category for professionals, first inaugurated by...
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| Nico Thomas | |||
| Ratanapol Sor Vorapin | |||
| Miguel Barrera | |||
| Daniel Reyes | |||
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| x Light flyweight | Ricardo Lopez |
Light Flyweight, also known as Junior Flyweight, is a boxing weight class.
The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds (49 kilograms). When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class...
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| Dodie Boy Peñalosa | |||
| Jum Hwan Choi | |||
| Muangchai Kittikasem | |||
| Michael Carbajal | |||
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| x Light welterweight | Erkki Mallenius |
The light Welterweight class (also called junior welterweight or super lightweight) is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds. The first champion of this weight class was Pinky Mitchell in 1926, though he...
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| Bruno Visintin | |||
| Quincey Daniels | |||
| Marian Kasprzyk | |||
| Eddie Blay | |||
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| x Super heavyweight | Aziz Salihu |
In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms (200.6 pounds). Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur...
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| Robert Wells | |||
| Janusz Zarenkiewicz | |||
| Aleksandr Miroshnichenko | |||
| Svilen Rusinov | |||
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