Boxing weights compared to MMA weights

Mma welterweight is closer to super middleweight in boxing than lightheavy. And mma lightweight is almost identical with super welterweight

 

Boxing has it all wrong. Each division is VERY weak because the talent pool is so shallow.

Imagine 156 to 170 in boxing - becomes Miguel Cotto, Saul Alvarez, Cornelius Bundrage, Paul Williams, James Kirkland, Cory Spinks, Erislandy Lara, Anthony Mundine, Antonio Margarito, Kermit Cintron, Sergio Martinez, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Felix Sturm, Andy Lee, Gennady Golovkin, Dmitry Pirog, Nobuhiro Ishida, Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler, Kelly Pavlik, Andre Dirrel, Arthur Abraham....

What a ****ing stacked division. The are more names to add to that list! Great fights all over the place. Fighters would improve even more to get further in their careers and have the skill to deal with such talent!

 

I think primarily its because boxing weight classes were established when people were relatively smaller so a 200Ibs athlete was a huge dude. Today that isn't the case. But yeah boxing with the UFC's weight classes would be unbelievably awesome.

 

Even the original weight classes would be great but they introduced more.

The only issue with what you say seems to appear above 175 where the insertion of a 200 pound division isn't so bad.

 

Imagine the weight divisions if boxing was this- Adopts the old school approach of fighting and mixing it with modern themes. Also surely Middleweight should literally the middle division...so i picked 7 weight classes. Anyone fancy doing a top 10 if boxing kept it simple for each division. Also creating a super-heavy, makes Heavy more interesting for guys like Haye, Adamek, Chambers to fight and make money.


210 plus- Super-Heavy

175-210- Heavyweight

160-175- Light-heavyweight

147-160- Middleweight

135-147- Welterweight

126-135- Lightweight

126 minus - Featherweight


In the end we want competition, does anyone serioulsy think half the guys that claim to be champion would be if there were only 7 weight classes.

 

Also weight classes exisit to make it fair, so jumping weight should not be so easy, in reality most fighters would stay in there weight class, and the special ones jump one or two at the most...i laugh when people say 5 weight champ...yeah whatever.

 

The ridiculous weight classes and the alphabet titles is what pretty much killed it with me and boxing. A dozen ****ing weight classes, 4 major sanctioning bodies and countless minor associations/organisations and federations. It's a joke.

 

Get rid of some of the weight classes, get rid of the inteirm, silver etc bull**** and boxing would be much healthier.

4 belts is the hard part of boxing. Football, Tennis etc have numerous titles which people follow. 17 weight classes x 4 belts x 4 interim/silver etc then throw in another 17 x 4 **** weight classes and god damn it there are probably 100 champs or so.

 

What would my idea look like on paper guys? Who fancies doing a top ten for each weight class.

The only division i see losing out would be the super-heavies as Adamek, Haye and Chambers would more likely fight in the heavy div which is sub 210.

 

I don´t think that Haye and Adamek would be fighting sub 210 at this point of their career they want the big payday against the Klitschkos. If they wanted they could still be fighting at CW they wouldn´t even have to lose weight, they could cut water to CW if they wanted to.

 

Why have you added minimum weights to each division?

 

All weight classes today have minimum weights. Commission's won't sanction a welterweight match if one of the fighters comes in below the lightweight limit.

 

the weight classes in boxing have become an absolute joke, 12 is hard enough but 17 is just too ****ing hard