Why are there so many weight classes in Boxing...

When you're a midget you only do little malteaser poos like a rabbit so it's all equivalent.

 

Because there is a big variation in size amongst humans.

It's also not so much about how many lbs or kgs the difference is but what percentage of your bodyweight.

I also don't think having less divisions would necessarily make for stronger divisons. In theory the more closely matched in size they are, the more competetive the divisions should be

 

More belts more sanctioning fees.

 

Because there is money to be made which is why there are so many bull**** divisions and alphabet organizations.

 

It's called ratios.

 

I have been saying lately that they should get rid of 154 and 168.

 

Yes that also. But if you remove 154 and 168 it would do wonders people would see. It could eliminate a lot of catch weight fights also.

 

How so?

 

So what? You would still have the same people fighting and the difference between them in natural size would still be the same.

 

Fighters would step up more often instead of having all these different weight divisons to hide in. 154's will stop draining themselves and just fight at 160. And guys at 168 should just fight at 175. Its pathetic that there are all these weight divisions but people still want catch weights. Its becoming a farce.

 

But the guys at 154 are fighting against guys who are the same size as them. If you got rid of 154 then those guys would have to drain themselves more to make 147 or fight bigger guys who are draining themselves down to 160

 

I think thats bs. First guys gain weight after the weigh in and one guy usually outweighs the other sometime by more than 10lbs and even more in extreme cases. You have hw outweighing opponents by nearly 50lbs ffs! Id like to see boxing cut down to about 10 weight classes and 3 world titles per class. Also same day weigh ins.

 

We have more boxers than anytime in history, so obviously more weight classes is a good evolutionary direction (opposed to horizontal in the direction of more belts or sub-boxing genres)

More weight classes is excellent as long as boxers stick more to their weight classes and clean them up. Also fixing the mathematical flaws created by mental midgets who erroneously spaced the small divisions without any consistent ratio

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