Welterweight

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing

Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human 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....
, but other combat sports like kickboxing

Kickboxing

refers to the sport of using martial-arts-style kicks and boxing-style punches to defeat an opponent in a similar way to that of standard boxing. Kickboxing is a standing sport and does not allow continuation of the fight once a combatant has reached the ground....
, taekwondo

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. It is the world's most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners....
and mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
also began to use it for their own weight division system. In most sports that use it, welterweight is heavier than lightweight

Lightweight

The word lightweight usually refers to 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 liquor....
but lighter than middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
.

Professional boxing A welterweight boxer weighs in at between 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and 147 pounds (66.7 kg).

Henry Armstrong

Henry Armstrong

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Welterweight'

Start a new discussion about 'Welterweight'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing

Boxing

Kickboxing

Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. It is the world's most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners....
and mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Lightweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
.

Boxing

Professional boxing

A welterweight boxer weighs in at between 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and 147 pounds (66.7 kg).

Henry Armstrong

Henry Armstrong

Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.The son of an African-American sharecropper and an Iroquois Native American, Henry Jr....
holds the division record for most title defenses at 18. Freddie Cochran was the longest reigning champion, holding the title four years, six months, and three days (although Jose Napoles

José Napoles

Jos? ?ngel N?poles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban former world welterweight boxing champion. Napoles is a national hero both in Cuba and Mexico, and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
comes in a close second at four years, six months, and two days). Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight....
is generally considered to be the greatest welterweight of all time.

Notable welterweights include Barney Ross

Barney Ross

Barney Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky was a boxing. After his beloved father, a rabbi, dies in his arms after being shot in a robbery, Ross, a rabbinical student: loses his faith in God and abandons his studies; becomes a street brawler alongside his buddy Jack Ruby; goes to work for Al Capone; transforms himself into the first three weight-cla...
, Jackie Fields

Jackie Fields

Jackie Fields , born Jacob Finkelstein, was an United States Boxing.He was an Olympic Games flyweight gold medal winner, and the world welterweight champion....
, Ted "Kid" Lewis, Jimmy Mclarnin

Jimmy McLarnin

James Archibald McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxing who became two time List of welterweight boxing champions and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee....
, Jack Britton

Jack Britton

Jack Britton was three time world welterweight champion from the USA, who was born as William J. Breslin in Clinton, New York. His professional career lasted for 25 years beginning in 1905....
, Henry Armstrong

Henry Armstrong

Fritzie Zivic

Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an United States Boxing....
, Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson

Kid Gavilan

Gerardo Gonz?lez , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former gardener and world welterweight champion from Cuba. He was a native of the city of Camag?ey....
, Carmen Basilio

Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....
, Emile Griffith

Emile Griffith

Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions....
, Jose Napoles

José Napoles

Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
, Thomas Hearns

Thomas Hearns

Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
, Roberto Duran

Roberto Durán

Roberto Dur?n is a retired professional boxing from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone"....
, Julio Cesar Chavez

Julio César Chávez

Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
, Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea," is a retired professional Boxing, who is considered among the greatest of all-time. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Whitaker was the lightweight silver medalist at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships, followed by the gold medal at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 Summer...
, Félix Trinidad

Félix Trinidad

F?lix 'Tito' Trinidad, Jr. is a Puerto Rico professional boxer, considered as one of the best boxers in that archipelago's history. When he was an amateur Trinidad won five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico....
, Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is an United States boxing and promoter who won a List of Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
, Shane Mosley

Shane Mosley

"Sugar" Shane Mosley is a boxing from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current World_Boxing_Association#Current_WBA_world_title_holders....
, Zab Judah

Zab Judah

Zabdiel Judah is an American Professional boxing, who is a former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion and former List of undisputed boxing champions#Welterweight and is ranked #9 in the welterweight division by The Ring ....
, Ricky Hatton

Ricky Hatton

Richard John Hatton Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a United Kingdom professional boxing is a two-time International Boxing Federation and International Boxing Organisation light welterweight champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to step back down to the weight class and bea...
, Arturo Gatti

Arturo Gatti

Arturo "Thunder" Gatti is an Italian-Canadian former professional Boxing. Gatti was born in Italy to Italian parents, but his family moved to Canada when he was young and he was raised in Montreal ....
, Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito in Torrance, California Is a Mexican American boxer and is a former World Boxing Association Welterweight Champion. He is also a former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization Welterweight champion....
, Miguel Cotto

Miguel Cotto

Miguel ?ngel Cotto is a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. As an amateur, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 1998 Junior World Championships where he won a silver medal....
and retired, former Ring Magazine and WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and now the current no. 1 pound for pound (Ring Magazine) Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiáo

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao , known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino people boxing. He is the former World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Lightweight, World Boxing Council List of WBC world champions#Superfeatherweight, International Boxing Federation List of IBF world champions#Junior featherweight, and...
who recently beat Oscar de la Hoya with a TKO at the ninth round.

Olympic champions

1904
Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics

At the 1904 Summer Olympics, seven boxing events were contested. Only United States boxers competed. The competitions were held on Wednesday, September 21, 1904 and on Thursday, September 22, 1904....
–
1920
Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes. The competitions were held from August 21, 1920 to August 24, 1920....
–
1924
Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes. The competitions were held from July 15, 1924 to July 20, 1924....
–
1928
Boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes....
–
1932
Boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes....
–
1936
Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

These are the results of the boxing competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Medals were awarded in 8 boxing weight classes. The competitions were held from August 10, 1936 to August 15, 1936....
–
1948
Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1948 Summer OlympicsMedal tableMedal summary...
–
1952
Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The events were held at T??l? Sports Hall....
–
1956
Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place in the new stadium at West Melbourne. A total number of 164 competitors entered from 35 nations, of whom 161 from 34 nations weighed-in and boxing was held eight nights and five afternoons....
–
1960
Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

In the 1960 Summer Olympics, Muhammad Ali won the gold medal in the boxing light heavyweight division for the United States....
–
1964
Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics:It was held October 11 to October 23....
–
1968
Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics....
–
1972
Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics:It was held August 27 to September 10, with the participation of 357 fighters from 81 countries....
–
1976
Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

There were eleven boxing events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
–
1980
Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place in the Indoor Stadium of the Olympiski Sports Complex in Moscow. The boxing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 2 August....
–
1984
Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place in the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The boxing schedule began on July 29 and ended on August 11....
–
1988
Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in the Chamshil Students' Gymnasium in Seoul. The boxing schedule began on September 17 and ended on October 2....
–
1992
Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place in the old Pavell? Club Joventut de Badalona in Barcelona. The boxing schedule began on July 26 and ended on August 9....
–
1996
Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Boxing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics...
–
2000
Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour....
–
2004
Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each....
–
2008
Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The boxing programme of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China was held at the Workers Indoor Arena.Medals were awarded in eleven events, with each event corresponding to a recognized weight division of male boxers....
–

Professional Boxing Champions

List of welterweight boxing champions
List of welterweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Welterweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations:* The World Boxing Association , founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association ...

Kickboxing

The weight division system is different in each organisation. So the kickboxing weight divisions of some international organisations vary:

International Kickboxing Federation
International Kickboxing Federation

The International Kickboxing Federation is the largest Kickboxing Sanctioning Body in the World. The Organization also hosts the Largest and highest ranked/visited Kickboxing Sanctioning body website in the world as Confirmed by *...
(IKF) Welterweight (Pro & Amateur) 142.1 lbs. - 147 lbs.(64.59 kg - 66.8 kg).
World Kickboxing Association
World Kickboxing Association

The World Kickboxing Association is the first professional kick boxing organization which was founded by Howard Hanson who is a founder of kickboxing in America....
(WKA) fixed 140–147 pounds (63.5–67 kg) for welterweight.
International Sport Karate Association
International Sport Karate Association

The International Sport Karate Association is one of the international bodies regulating karate and kickboxing matches.It's based in USA....
(ISKA) set 142.1–147 pounds (64.6–66.8 kg) for welterweight.

Muay Thai

Muay Thai is a form of hard martial art practiced in large parts of the world, including Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. The art is similar to others in Southeast Asian such as: pradal Serey in Cambodia, lethwei in Myanmar, tomoi in Malaysia, and Lao boxing in Laos....
has fixed its weight division as similar to boxing. According to World Muay Thai Council (WMC), its welter weight is from 140 pounds (63.5 kg) to 147 pounds (66.6 kg). And World Muay Thai Federation (WMF) which is the official amateur organization fixed from 63.5 to 67 kg for adult. The Junior category is the same as adult.

International Kickboxing Federation
International Kickboxing Federation

The International Kickboxing Federation is the largest Kickboxing Sanctioning Body in the World. The Organization also hosts the Largest and highest ranked/visited Kickboxing Sanctioning body website in the world as Confirmed by *...
(IKF) Muay Thai Welterweight (Pro & Amateur) 142.1 lbs. - 147 lbs.(64.59 kg - 66.8 kg).

Shoot boxing

The official rule of shoot boxing

Shoot boxing

Shoot boxing is a combat sport which allows kicking, punching, throwing, and standing submission. It was developed from kickboxing by Caesar Takeshi....
says between 65 and 67 kg (143.3 to 147.7 lb) is welterweight.

Mixed martial arts

International Sport Combat Federation
International Sport Combat Federation

International Sport Combat Federation is a sanctioning body for the sport of mixed martial arts with an aim of recognizing a set of worldwide champions....
ISCF: Welterweight: 155.1 to 170 lbs. / 70.45.1 kg - 77.27 kg

Taekwondo

In the sport of olympic taekwondo, welterweight falls between 158.8 pounds and 171.1 pounds (72-78 kg). At the weight classes for the olympic games it is 149.9 - 176.0 lb (68-80 kg)

Bodybuilding

According to the National Physique Association, in bodybuilding

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding is the process of maximizing muscle hypertrophy; an individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their aesthetic appearance....
a welterweight weighs more than 154.25 lbs and not more than 165.25 lbs.