Why boxers can't fight in more then one weight class?

Aside of the obvious fact the alphabet sanctioning bodies want as many "champions" as possible, I can't think of a sound reason why a boxer shouldn't be allowed to compete in more then one weight class simultaneously...

We have guys who managed to become champions (okay maybe not, but belt holders nevertheless) in 2, 3, 4 or even more weight classes, but they had to lay down their belts first and then fight in the next higher class.

But why should a fighter not be allowed to fight in say MW and SMW as he pleases? If he can make the MW weight, he could be even champion in MW and SMW at the same time. We all know how hard it is to have a unified champion - almost impossible. But why should we not have say WBC MW and SMW champion, or say IBF WW, JMW and MW champion?

With the lower weight classes, which differ only 3-4 lbs it would be even easier to become champion of more then one division, suppose Manny Paquiao could easily become 7-division-champion at the same time, kicking ass between Bantam- and Welterweight... But we have too many weight classes anyway, that's the fact, with a bunch of dwarves as "champions" where the weight difference between the divisions is less then the difference in weight between a plenty evening meal with lots of drinking and the toilet visit next morning...

I think we could easily live with the lower weight classes differing no less then 5 pounds - who cares if one dwarf beats another dwarf who's 1-2 lbs lighter or heavier, there's no real difference whatsoever... The weight classes could then look something like this:

105 Minimumweight
110 Strawweight
115 Flyweight
120 Bantamweight
125 Featherweight
130 Junior Lightweight
135 Lightweight
140 Junior Welterweight
146 Welterweight
153 Junior Middleweight
160 Middleweight
168 Super Middleweight
180 Light Heavyweight
200 Cruiserweight
230 Heavyweight
230+ Super heavyweight (maybe...)

The weight classes would be spread much more even then now, and if a boxer could fight in more then one weight division at the same time, why not?

The Super Heavyweight division can be discussed this way and that - I think anyone halfway sane admits huge size and weight difference means huge advantage. In the lower weight classes people are bitching about every single pound more or less, and in Heavyweight nobody finds it wrong when a blown-up Middleweight with barely 200 lbs fights against a behemoth 1 foot bigger and 100 lbs heavier...

On the other side, even the Klitschkos could pretty easily cut 15-20 lbs to make the 230 lbs limit if needed and thus still compete in the Heavyweight division, while kicking ass in the Super Heavyweight Division as well... So who would be the real Super Heavyweight fighters then, I mean who is that big so he couldn't make 230 lbs without draining himself seriously? Are there enough such behemots to populate the Super Heavyweight division? Probably not, but one could still try first and look what happens and if it sticks or not, mean if there is enough public interest, enough good fighters and enough money to make it work, better then just keep bitching over the weight issues until the judgement day and just keep telling that a weight division above Heavyweight is just crap...

Because if the humanity were thinking this way, we would still be living in caves and hunting bears and mammuts for breakfast... You have to try something first and then look if it was a good idea or not, you can't think everything out in advance...

 

You could have saved yourself lot of embarassing if you'd simply realized that thinking first and writing afterwards would be way better then switching your brain off and writing "bollocks" all over the place...

You are a perfect example of the guy who on his own would still live in the cave and hunt bears for breakfast... Not able to generate new ideas and not even able to grasp the new ideas other have thought of, but the first of the bunch just writing "bollocks"...

 

I didn't speak of really LOSING 15-20 pounds of fat, I just said CUTTING 15-20 pounds before the fight. If Paul Williams is said to cut 10-15 pounds before his fights regularly (an he isn't THAT fat guy at all...) I don't see why the Klitschkos couldn't cut 15-20 pounds if needed. And if not, then they would have to compete in Super Heavyweight, maybe even better.

And I wasn's speaking of going up and down like RJJ up to HW and back down, just of making weight for more then one division - say why couldn't Abraham fight at SMW and still at MW? If he still can make 160 pounds now and for the next fight he could take it easy making only 168 lbs for the SMW fight, next time strain a bit more and make 160 pounds again, so what's the problem? Abraham said he would go back to MW for a fight with Sturm, say he wins Super Six, would he have to vacate his WBA/WBC belts to do this? And if not, suppose he fights Sturm at 160 and wins, thus becoming WBA MW champ, now which belts would he have to vacate? Why shouldn't he stay champ at MW and SMW?

 

I don't quite see the logic - an unified champ has 2, 3 or even 4 belts, so he has 2, 3 or even 4 mandatories to face on regular basis instead of just one.

What is then a big difference if you have to face one mandatory for each of your belts in one weight division, or if you have to face one mandatory for each weight division of one sanctioning body?

Say Abraham wins Super Six, thus becoming WBC/WBA SMW champ. So he has to defend the belts against two mandatories regularly. Then he goes back to MW and fight Sturm (he said he would go back to MW again for this one fight) than what? He would have to vacate either the MW belt immediately after, or to vacate his SMW belts. Why shouldn't he defend his WBA MW belt against a mandatory now and then and his WBA SMW belt as well? If three belts are too much, he still could vacate WBC SMW belt and remain two division WBA champ.

I don't see real difference between defending MW and SMW belts for a while and defending 2 SMW belts for a while. Abraham walks around at way more then 168 lbs, if he can cut weight down to 160 then it's no strain for him to cut weight only down to 168 now and then...