What is the fixation of weight on the heavyweights of the past?

Same thing happens when You google Super lightweight. I guess light welter is the old term for the same thing.

 

Of course you would. Creating an extra division would prevent the logical labelling of a super heavyweight sized boxer being officially labelled a super heavyweight. As they have been in Amateur boxing for a generation already.

Bridgerweight creates 5 more champions. The very thing you recon you don’t want!

What did Amateur boxing get so wrong?

 

I don't know.
Theoretically and practically each pro boxing org might set his own limits.

The biggest problem with supposed CW limit to 190 lbs is that small and medium size CW boxers prefer to trim down till LHW 175 lbs limit and large CW lads does have weight in weight 197-199.7 lbs usually.

With 190 lbs limit CW division might be " done " almost completely.

I don't think that lads like Dorticos, Tabiti etc similar size lads might make 190 lbs and perform well after 24 hours for example.

 

Ohh, I think best might had been like this:
175-200lbs is a cruiser
200-225lbs is a bridger
however is 200+ boxer wish to compete at HW he is allowed to compete at HW.
Anything above 225 lbs = automatically only HW.

 

Before I say anything else, I just wanna say that I like thread titles that are questions.

 

So long as the 225 plus division is called Superheavyweight (and absolutely not heavyweight) I could live with it actually. I think 225 is a natural cut off for heavyweight as I said to @Entaowed

When heavyweight has a limit in Amateur boxing it does nothing but confuse things if there is no further weight classes above it in the professional ranks. I believe it should be uniform transition with slightly more leeway with the limits within pros.

Myself I would prefer lightheavyweight go up to 184. Have 180 to 225 and call it heavyweight (as it should always have been) and make 225lb plus category the Superheavyweight division. As it is in all but name anyway.

 

I think you misunderstood. In the olympic, and the whole of non professional boxing, there is a weight class above heavyweight. It is rightly, in my opinion, called Superheavyweight. I am certain you know that This is not a fantasy.

The weight classes do not confuse anyone in Amateur boxing.

 

more than likely, most people coming to their first professional boxing show won’t know what cruiserweight is. Barely anyone outside of boxing fans understand this word..or it’s limit. Despite how good the division has been this passed by the world at large. And you know it.

when they already have had Superheavyweight for over thirty years? No, I think the confusion arises when there is no super heavyweight division. Seeing as the heavyweights are called modern “Superheavyweight” sized fighters by every commentator calling the fights on TV.

 

Well Superheavyweight was introduced in 1984. It was not much later.

Cruiserweight changed its limit from 190 to 200 lbs in 2003. So that division, as it now stands, is clearly the newer division.