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In the early nineteenth century, there were no standard weight classes. In 1823, the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue said the limit for a "light weight" was 12 stone (168 lb, 76.2 kg) while Sportsman's Slang the same year gave 11 stone (154 lb, 69.9 kg) as the limit. [8]
For a variety of reasons (largely historical), weight classes of the same name can be of vastly different weights. For example, a boxing middleweight weighs up to 72 kg (160 lb), an ISKA middleweight upper limit is 75 kg (165 lb), and a K-1 middleweight upper limit is 70 kg (154 lb).
The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
The Ardblair Stones is a strength feat, where nine reinforced concrete lifting stones of ascending weight are used. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 9 stones weigh 18 kg (40 lb), 32 kg (71 lb), 41 kg (90 lb), 50 kg (110 lb), 75 kg (165 lb), 107 kg (236 lb), 118 kg (260 lb), 135 kg (298 lb) and 152 kg (335 lb) respectively. [ 3 ]
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]
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Húsafell Stone carry – 186 kg (410 lb) for 98.16 metres (322 ft 1 in) (2019 Iceland's Strongest Man) (World Record) [63] [64] Before establishing this, Hafþór also broke the 25 year old world record of the event by carrying the stone 90 metres (295 ft 3 in) during 2017 Iceland's Strongest Man [38]
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