Leonard-Hearns was a Catchweight

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Code Red, Jul 15, 2014.


  1. Code Red

    Code Red Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well according to the posters here these fights dont count since they weren't at the limit, dang leonard and hearns...all that for nothing
     
  2. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    its called a weight limit not a criteria. Its better to weigh a pound or 2 under the limit than 5 pounds over
     
  3. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    At the time of the first fight, catchweight meant the two combatants could weigh whatever they wanted -- i.e. no weight limit for either.

    That's how Lamotta and Robinson had catchweight bouts like one where Lamotta came at 160 3/4 and Robinson at 145: techinically at the time, a light heavyweight vs. a welterweight.

    Somehow, in recent times catchweight has come to mean the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the term originally meant: now people use it to describe a situation where two fighters agree to meet a certain weight limit between the divisional weight limits.

    It's a strange thing when a word comes to mean opposite of what it originally meant.
     
  4. Dorfmeister

    Dorfmeister Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fight 2 was with SRL at 160 and Tommy at 162 as it was already said. Never heard of a catchweight for the unification bout in 1981.