average height in weight classes

Eat normally or maybe a bit more then usual and train for boxing. Let your body tell you where it wants to be and go from there.

 

I dont know exactly what weight class but a rough guess from seeing amateur / professional fighters in recent years, a 5'9/5'10 is a sturdy light middleweight/super welterweight which has a limit of 154 pounds on weigh-in day.

Or even perhaps at that height considering your thinking of putting on some muscle being a semi-stocky middleweight could work, which has 160 pounds as the limit good example of fighters who've found success with that height/weight combination would be Arthur Abaraham in recent times and even more historically Marvin Hagler was about that height and was middleweight.

Anyhow it ends up being your preference, to fight bigger gangly guys or more slick and speedy type of opponents.

For me, I walk around 140 and I think I'm in the same limbo as you as to whether put on muscle and take 147 or just stay and make 135. Im 5'8 for the record.
So I guess we're in the same limbo. rofl.

 

I'm 5'9 and walk around 146lbs. Very big legs but small upper body.

 

For amatuers it would be 152, which is what I fight at and I'm 6'0. I've always been the taller guy though. Im even moving down to 147 for a couple competitions in spring '10. I'm walking around 148-150 right now, 5.9% BF. Body wise, I look like a white Paul Williams covered in tattoos.

 

Im quite slim on top, but my calfs and thighs are huge. Oh and i have a 17inch neck. Ridiculous compared to my 37inch chest. lol

 

Another thing. A guy on my fight team is 5'8" and fights at 130 somthing.

 

Carny freak.

 

I'm 5ft 11 and weigh 135. I'm like a ****ing octopus.

 

I'm 185 5'10 & i actually prefer fighting taller opponents

 

The US National Champion at lightweight is 6' and fights at 132.

 

I'm 6'3-6'4 and fight at 165