Will humanity outgrow the Strawweight divison?

Now, we'll just lower the age requirement.
Get the kids involved.

 

They already do this in Mexico and Asia. Strawweights will continue to come from poor backgrounds, where one’s ability to consume 3 square meals a day is considered a luxury.

 

If you want to find out, you want to compare the percentage of boxers who are strawweights over time.

 

Even if we do, it can just be a division for roided up midgets

 

Good post .I was thinking about this the other day .Perhaps the division will cease to exist in the future .better diet is making people worldwide bigger on average .

 

A lot depends upon what countries get involved.

Lets say that there was a change of leadership in North Korea, and it became a locus for professional boxing?

There is also the issue of women's boxing.

 

Yes, and North Korean transgender boxing.
For kids.

 

The problem with Strawweight is the money there just isn't that great. So there's a lot less incentive to start with.
Little men can make more as a jockey than a strawweight champion.
And if you're just a journeyman strawweight you're probably better off being a chimney sweep.

 

Didn't you ever see the little jump and click of his heels that Ricardo Lopez used to do whenever he laid out some diminutive, overmatched mug? His entry music was Chim Chim Cheree in Spanish.

 

Seriously though, we've basically outgrown it on a natural level anyway, it ain't normal for someone to drain themselves to that kind of weight and the guys that do it are just flyweights anyway. All of the junior divisions below featherweight are pointless, they just dilute the talent pool and disperse it.

 

When I was at some Muai Thai fights in Thailand they put kids' fights at the end of the cards. Those were the most crude, brutal and short ones. Very entertaining though.

 

I agree.
The divisions are 3 pounds apart. That's ridiculous.