BoxingBoxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
weightAlthough some people prefer the less-ambiguous term body mass, the term body weight is overwhelmingly used in daily English speech and in biological and medical science contexts to describe the mass of an organism's body. Body weight is measured in kilograms throughout the world, although in some...
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BoxingBoxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
weightAlthough some people prefer the less-ambiguous term body mass, the term body weight is overwhelmingly used in daily English speech and in biological and medical science contexts to describe the mass of an organism's body. Body weight is measured in kilograms throughout the world, although in some...
-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:
| Weight Limit | WBA The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level. It is also the most major title out of the four. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...
| WBC The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
| IBF The International Boxing Federation, or IBF, is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...
| WBOThe World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. Its offices are located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.-History:...
| BoxRecBoxRec.com is a website dedicated to keep updated records of professional boxers, both male and female. It also maintains a mediawiki-based encyclopaedia of boxing: ....
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Heavyweight Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...
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| 200 lb (90.72 kg) |
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....
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Cruiserweight |
Cruiserweight |
Junior heavyweight |
Cruiserweight |
| 175 lb (79.4 kg) |
Light heavyweight In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the weight division between cruiserweight and super middleweight...
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| 168 lb (76.2 kg) |
Super middleweight 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 and light heavyweight in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s...
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| 160 lb (72.6 kg) |
Middleweight 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 Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867...
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| 154 lb (69.9 kg) |
Super welterweight |
Super welterweight |
Junior middleweight |
Junior middleweight |
Light middleweight Light Middleweight , is a weight division in professional boxing, between 148-154 pounds ....
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| 147 lb (66.7 kg) |
Welterweight 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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| 140 lb (63.5 kg) |
Super lightweight |
Super lightweight |
Junior welterweight |
Junior welterweight |
Light welterweight -Professional boxing:The light Welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...
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| 135 lb (61.2 kg) |
Lightweight 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 be used to describe something as being small or...
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| 130 lb (59.0 kg) |
Super featherweight 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 New York State Athletic Commission in 1930...
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Super featherweight |
Junior lightweight |
Junior lightweight |
Super featherweight |
| 126 lb (57.2 kg) |
Featherweight Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling .-Professional boxing:A featherweight boxer weighs in at 126 pounds . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but...
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| 122 lb (55.3 kg) |
Super bantamweight Super Bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....
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Super bantamweight |
Junior featherweight |
Junior featherweight |
Super bantamweight |
| 118 lb (53.5 kg) |
Bantamweight The term bantamweight usually refers to a class in boxing or boxers who weigh between 112 and 118 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight. The name is derived from Bantam chickens.-History:...
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| 115 lb (52.2 kg) |
Super flyweight 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 ....
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Super flyweight |
Junior bantamweight |
Junior bantamweight |
Super flyweight |
| 112 lb (50.8 kg) |
Flyweight Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below featherweight was considered a bantamweight,...
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| 108 lb (49.0 kg) |
Light flyweight - Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this...
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Light flyweight |
Junior flyweight |
Junior flyweight |
Light flyweight |
| 105 lb (47.6 kg) |
Minimumweight Minimumweight is a weight category in professional boxing where boxers may weigh no more than . This is a relatively new weight category for professionals, first inaugurated by the major sanctioning bodies between 1987 and 1990...
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Strawweight |
Mini flyweight |
Mini flyweight |
Minimumweight |
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boxing at the Summer OlympicsBoxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The 2008 Summer Olympics was the final games with boxing as a male only event...
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| Weight (up to) | AIBA The International Boxing Association is a for-profit organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.- Origins :...
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| 91+ kg (200+ lb) |
Super heavyweight In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms . Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division, despite its grandiose name, is merely the amateur equivalent of the professional heavyweight division...
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| 91 kg (200 lb) |
Heavyweight Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...
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| 81 kg (178 lb) |
Light heavyweight In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the weight division between cruiserweight and super middleweight...
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| 75 kg (165 lb) |
Middleweight 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 Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867...
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| 69 kg (152 lb) |
Welterweight 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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| 64 kg (141 lb) |
Light welterweight -Professional boxing:The light Welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...
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| 60 kg (132 lb) |
Lightweight 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 be used to describe something as being small or...
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| 57 kg (125 lb) |
Featherweight Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and wrestling .-Professional boxing:A featherweight boxer weighs in at 126 pounds . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but...
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| 54 kg (119 lb) |
Bantamweight The term bantamweight usually refers to a class in boxing or boxers who weigh between 112 and 118 pounds . Wrestling also has similar weight classes including bantamweight. The name is derived from Bantam chickens.-History:...
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| 51 kg (112 lb) |
Flyweight Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing less than 112 lb but above 108 lb .-Professional boxing:The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below featherweight was considered a bantamweight,...
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| 48 kg (106 lb) |
Light flyweight - Professional boxing :The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds . When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds. When the National Boxing Association was formed in 1921, it also recognized this...
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