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The lower weight classes are to be adjusted in September 2010, to establish an absolute minimum weight for adult boxers. [1] Amateur weight classes also specify the minimum weight (which the same as the maximum weight of the next highest class). [1] For safety reasons, fighters cannot fight at a higher weight.
Weight class name Upper limit Gender Atomweight 105 lb (47.627 kg) Feminine Light Flyweight 109 lb (49.442 kg) Feminine Flyweight 113 lb (51.256 kg) Feminine Light Bantamweight 117 lb (53.070 kg) Feminine / Masculine Bantamweight 121 lb (54.885 kg) Feminine / Masculine Featherweight 125 lb (56.699 kg) Feminine / Masculine
Singapore-based ONE Championship banned weight-cutting by dehydration in December 2015 and holds fights based on a competitor's "walking weight", rather than pre-fight weigh-ins. [6] The change took place after 21-year-old Yang Jian Bing died due to dehydration by weight-cutting in 2015. [7]
Weight classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports including rowing , weight lifting , and especially combat sports [ 1 ] such as boxing , kickboxing , mixed martial arts , wrestling , and Brazilian jiu-jitsu .
The minimumweight division was originally introduced in 1968 for the Summer Olympic Games under the name light flyweight. However the division was not recognized by any of the four most widely regarded sanctioning bodies until the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in June 1987 when Kyung-Yun Lee knocked out Masaharu Kawakami to become the inaugural champion.
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In the United Kingdom, the 1947 Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules set out seven weight divisions with maximum weight limits and called for champions to be crowned of each limit. This included Welterweight 11st 11 lb (165 lb or ~75 kg) [ 26 ] [ 27 ] An earlier system of weight classes with different levels and more divisions - including Welterweight ...
For example, each boxing division with the exception of heavyweight has its own weight classes, ranging from 105 pounds for minimumweight to 200 pounds for cruiserweight and varying in range in the weight classes in between. In order to fight for a championship in these weight classes, the fighters must come into the fight at or below said weight.