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In professional boxing, boxers in the minimumweight division may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg). This is a relatively new weight category for professionals, first inaugurated by the major boxing sanctioning bodies between 1987 and 1990.
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds (49 kilograms). When New York legalized boxing in 1920, the law stipulated a "junior flyweight" class, with a weight limit of 99 pounds.
The lower limit for "heavyweight" was established in 1948 at 81 kg. When a new limit of 91+ kg was established in 1984, the name "heavyweight" was kept by the 81+ kg class, and the 91+ kg class was named "super heavyweight", a name not currently used in professional boxing. Classes are as follows: [16]
The BMI is expressed in kg/m 2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in metres. If pounds and inches are used, a conversion factor of 703 (kg/m 2)/(lb/in 2) is applied. (If pounds and feet are used, a conversion factor of 4.88 is used.) When the term BMI is used informally, the units are usually omitted.
48 kg (105.8 lb) Feminine Flyweight 50 kg (110.2 lb) Feminine Bantamweight 53.5 kg (117.9 lb) Feminine / Masculine Featherweight 57 kg (125.7 lb) Feminine / Masculine Lightweight 60 kg (132.3 lb) Feminine / Masculine Super Lightweight 63.5 kg (140.0 lb) Feminine / Masculine Welterweight 67 kg (147.7 lb) Feminine / Masculine
69 kg (152 lbs) 73 kg (161 lbs) Junior (female youths aged 18 to 20, and female youths at age 17 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) compete in freestyle wrestling in the following eight weight classes: [3] 50 kg (110 lbs) 53 kg (117 lbs) 55 kg (121 lbs) 57 kg (126 lbs) 59 kg (130 lbs) 62 kg (137 lbs) 65 kg (143 lbs)
In general, atomweight refers to competitors weighing less than 48 kg (105.8 lb), but the exact weight differs per promotion. Fight Matrix classifies fighters at 110.9 lbs (50.3 kg) and under as atomweight. [2] The Deep Jewels atomweight division has an upper limit of 47.6 kg (105 lbs). [3] It was previously known as featherweight until May ...