How many should there be? From what weight to what weight? What should they be called? How about... 13: Flyweight: 117 Bantamweight: 121 Featherweight: 125 Superfeatherweightt: 130 Lightweight: 135 Lightwelterweight: 141 Welterweight: 147 Lightmiddleweight: 154 Middleweight: 162 Supermiddleweight: 172 Cruiserweight: 185 Lightheavyweight: 200 Heavyweight: 200 +
I would keep them as is The worst ever idea is super heavyweight. Talk about diluting an already talentless pool. People have become so accustomed to 250lb fatties they think these guys are invincible, or have a huge advantage over a guy 220lb of solid muscle. They aren't, and we'll see this with David Haye
An awkward one as some think little amounts like 3lbs can be too big strangely. 112lbs Flyweight 119lbs Bantam 126lbs Feather 135lbs Light 147lbs Welter 160lbs Middle 175lb Super Middle(need one to even out the weight maybe?) 195lbs Light Heavy 210lbs Cruiser 210lbs+ Heavyweight
theres some huge differentials between some of your weight classes meaning hardly any athletes will be able to healthily put weight on to attempt to conquer another weight division. e.g. 147-160 and 160-175 were talking about a stone which is incredibly difficult to gain healthily. In your opinion would you like to see less multi-weight champions? i agree that in some cases there isnt much in some weight classes so its relatively easy 2 move up or down but i feel a stone is too much.
The ones that stand out are the 7lbs from Fly to Bantam, and a further 7 lbs to feather. Those are significant numbers for the little men, and it would be very difficult to jump up and make big fights. It would take a long while for the body to grow into the weight. I wouldn't like to be making the move from middle to super middle either On the positive side, you would have more highly competetive divisions. Division hopping wouldn't be as frequent
They won't struggle to make a ridiculous small weight division though and woouldn't have to severely dehydrate so much. Some of them put on a stone after the weigh Ins and wouldn't have to dehydrate If the divisions had more weight In. You can;t be a natural Lightweight If you fight In ring at Welter on the night.
I think there should be a heavyweight limit of 250. No super heavyweight division should be created. 200 to 250 and that's it. Will help eliminate the freak shows.
The old timers didn't have the added benefit of sports science, or huge weight draining. 15 lbs is just way too much. You could easily be giving away 10lbs on fight night, added to the 15 lbs of what I'd call unhealthy weight put on
trust, it would be a missmatch if someone bloated up completely and then got demolished by a fighter accustomed to the higher weight division. everyone says the term bloated in todays boxing world when they only move up 7 pounds so what it would be like for a stone i dread to think. plus im pretty much confident on the fact that conditioning in athletes today is on average better than the old days (with exceptions e.g. fat heavyweights!) so meeting a well conditioned fighter a stone better off than you are used to will be a dangerous and difficult task imo
Yeah, but at the same time, you can't help but notice the huge disparity in size when Wlad fought Ibraginov can you? I mean it was literally like David versus Goliath. I agree that it should stay the way it is but man, when a small HW goes up against a mountain like Wlad, it's a mismatch.
I think that the cruiserweight division should change its name to HW and the HW division should change its name to super HW. That would eliminate all the b/s about having a super heavyweight division. or change the cruiserweight name to LHW ... because to be honest there is no way that 175 is light HW.