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

This is a good post. In boxing being bigger means a lot. That's what these dumbasses on these boards don't understand. Size is the most important thing in boxing. It's even more important than skill. It just is.

What's funny though is that in America women have a higher BMI than the men. Men being heavier is basically because they're taller. Sad, but true in America these days.

 

That said just eliminate strawweight and light flyweight. For the very few guys who fit those weight classes who cares? Nobody cares about their fights. The talent pool is small and it's just pointless. Nobody cares about them. So get rid of it.

 

105/126 = 168/Heavyweight

Hekkie Budler vs Loma = Badou Jack vs Wilder

 

China, Indonesia, Japan & in the future large parts of SE Asia
(~2 Billion)

All fit in the category you want to eliminate, its a big part of the future of boxing & allows them to develop to future Flyweights...etc & even guys Like Manny Pacquiao (who started at the division you want to eliminate & made the biggest fight in boxing history)

Its good for you, you don't understand :think

 

If you're over 200 at 5'11" then you are really jacked. You'd be a 5'11" cruiserweight and those guys look like hummers.

 

It's good for those countries because they dominate those divisions for the sole reason that other nations don't have the guys small enough to be in them.

A strawweight is exceptionally small. Many standard deviations below the normal guy.

 

Its also bone structure, alot of humans valued height so 3'1" people didn't co-exist with 6'2" people. While 130 lbs & 260 lbs humans co-exist. This has to do more with demand for height (general) vs Robust built (speciation)

In the Heavyweight division a Robust built is a must & in the extreme lower divisions Gracile built is a must & Mid-Divisions have both types

In WWE only Robust types can compete, similar to how only Gracile females can compete in Modeling. The contrast creates the hybrid features common in men. If Robust males were stritcly attracted to robust females (possibly happened but didn't work), they would have bred to become very huge (as the goal is to favor robust traits & males will select huge females), opposed is gracile & robust females usually favoring Rich guys :smoke

Thats why we have 17 divisions & we will possibly have more :think

 

China + Indonesia + Japan are > Europe + USA, its perfectly normal to be in Straw weight limit in those regions.

Robust people who fit Heavyweight are actually the minority & they mainly concentrate in the colder climate regions of Europe & African Americans (who were bred with 30% North European Autosomal select gene flow), in Africa a small minority of Nigerians fit the Heavyweight division.

 

I think you're overthinking it. If you're hot you're hot.

 

From Europe:
Think of the Great Europeans that herded the masses
Napoleon Banoparte
Alexander The Great
Joseph Goebbles

All were within the now Non-European weight classes, what do we do with them, they should have to get in the ring & do some baxing :smoke

 

I understand that there are size variations. I'm just saying that 105 and 108 are unnecessary. There is zero fan interest for those weight classes. Very few boxers are that size. They don't need to exist.