Could a lighter man fight in a heavyweight division if he wanted to?

I don't think it did, though it did before 2003. In any case Jones and Ruiz fought for the WBA heavyweight title on 01/03/2010; John Marc Mormeck fought Oleksander Hurov for the WBA cruiserweight timtile the same night, with both weighing in below 190.

 

No, they can tell you to strip naked if they want.

 

I think that some of these points are wrong.

 

They can but they almost invariably dont.

 

Which ones, apart from the date which was obviously a typo ? both fights were on 01/03/2003 (not 2010, and I'm using the British date format - i.e. 1st March 2003).

 

Virgil Hill was contesting cruiserweight titles above 190lbs in 2002.

 

Not real ones he wasnt. He fought for an IBC title at above 190 but might have came in overweight for all I know (or care). His opponent was below 190.

I think the WBC had the limit at 195 at one stage but had lowered it to 190 in line with the others.

 

I wouldn't regard it as a fact when he still hasn't provided a single example of anyone doing it to show it's allowed, he thought Jones was one but he wasn't.

 

Heavyweight has no weight limits ...... a featherweight ko'ing the heavyweight champ becomes the champ.

 

The IBF and WBC both had cruiserweight title fights after Jones fought Ruiz and the weight limit was 190. On the under card of Jones-Ruizn Mormeck fought Hurov for the WBA cruiser weight title and both men came in below 190, so I believe it is reasonable to assume the limit was also 190 at that point.

 

http://www.abcboxing.com/documents/abcboxing_regulatory_guidelines.htm

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I'm not entirely sure I understand this correctly, but it appears to me, that the column "weight difference allowed" indicates how many lbs you are allowed to weigh in under the weight limit.
Which would mean that you would basically not be allowed to weigh in one division under the one you are fighting in. E.g. if you fought at featherweight, you'd have to weigh at least 122, since the "weight difference allowed" is 4 lbs. There are some exceptions where there's a one pound difference (FLW, MW, SMW, LHW).
The big exepction being the cruiserweight division, where you apparently have to weigh at least 188... and the minimumweights, as you obviously have no lower division. You seem to have to be at least 102 pounds to fight in it.
Now for the heavies: It seems you'd have to be at least 200 pounds nowadays.

That is, if I understand this right...

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