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Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term welterweight was used only in boxing , but other combat sports like muay Thai , taekwondo , and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents.
Manny Pacquiao has won world championships in eight different weight divisions, more than any other boxer.. In boxing, a weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers.
The welterweight division in mixed martial arts contains different weight classes: The UFC 's welterweight division, which groups competitors within 156 to 170 lb (71 to 77 kg ) The ONE Championship 's welterweight division, with upper limit at 83.9 kg (185.0 lb)
Beginning with boxer Pat Bradley, is a chronological widely recognized List of World Welterweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA)
Light Welterweight 145 lb (65.771 kg) Feminine / Masculine Welterweight 150 lb (68.039 kg) Feminine / Masculine Super Welterweight 155 lb (70.307 kg) Feminine / Masculine Light Middleweight 160 lb (72.575 kg) Feminine / Masculine Middleweight 165 lb (74.843 kg) Feminine / Masculine Super Middleweight 172 lb (78.018 kg)
Mayweather Jr. vacates the title to focus in the welterweight division. [53] 39 Vernon Forrest (def. Carlos Baldomir) 28 Jul 2007 – 7 Jun 2008 1 40 Sergio Mora: 7 Jun – 13 Sep 2008 0 41 Vernon Forrest (2) 13 Sep 2008 – 21 May 2009 0 Forrest is stripped of his title because of a rib injury that prevented him from defending his title. [54] 42
Cotto vacated the title to move up to welterweight. [58] 14 Ricardo Torres (def. Mike Arnaoutis) 18 Nov 2006 – 5 Jul 2008 3 15 Kendall Holt: 5 July 2008 – 4 Apr 2009 1 16 Timothy Bradley: 4 Apr 2009 – 27 Jun 2012 3 Bradley vacated the title after moving up to welterweight. [59] 17 Juan Manuel Márquez (interim champion promoted)
Pacquiao vacates the title to stay at welterweight. [43] 17 Danny Garcia (def. Amir Khan) 14 Jul 2012 – 10 Aug 2015 4 Garcia vacates the title to stay at welterweight. [32] 18 Terence Crawford (def. Viktor Postol) 23 Jul 2016 – 18 Feb 2018 3 Crawford expressed his intentions of moving up to welterweight and vacated his alphabet titles. The ...