Simple Question: What is welterweight? Welterweight title?

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  1. buxzer

    buxzer Eastern Champ Full Member

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    Simple Answer:

    In professional boxing, a welterweight boxer weighs in at between just above 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and up to the limit of 147 pounds (66.7 kg).

    Welterweight title is a title at stake on a championship fight between 2 welterweight boxers.

    Clarification: Some people refer to welterweight title as 147 lb. title. It's wrong since 147 is just the limit for the welterweight division. In reality, welterweight title is the 140.1 to 147 lbs. title.

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  2. CarlesX7

    CarlesX7 Shit got real! Full Member

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    Right.

    And I bet you've seen many welterweight champions come in for a fight at 140.1-141 pounds, eh?
     
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  3. VARG

    VARG Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Let's not also forget catchweights shrink the range from 140.1 to 145 ;)...NOT making it a TRUE WW fight :good:deal
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    You're right.

    Catchweights are almost as old as boxing.
     
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  5. booradley

    booradley Mean People Kick Ass! Full Member

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    Someone should start a thread about Cotto/Pac and the title and catchweight:patsch
     
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  6. buxzer

    buxzer Eastern Champ Full Member

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    I can't think of any right off my head but technically a welterweight champion can come in at that weight. It's not against any boxing rules and regulations. ;)
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  7. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    vivan haris defended a 140 title weighing in at 134

    there is no MINIMUM

    just cause they alphabet comboys dictate random weight ranges to crerate bs titles doesnt change boxing
     
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  8. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    The limit is 147lbs.

    I say if a fighter want's to weigh 112lbs pounds against a WW so be it.
    But why force a fighter to weigh less than he has to?

    If the limit is 147lbs, Then so be it.
     
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  9. buxzer

    buxzer Eastern Champ Full Member

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    NO... having a fight at 145 didn't shrink the welterweight division to 140.1 to 145 lbs.... the upper limit is still 147 lbs. ... It just happened that both boxers agreed to fight at a limit of 145 lbs. ;) Well within the welterweight division range of weights...
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  10. buxzer

    buxzer Eastern Champ Full Member

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    What fight is this one?? Are you sure about this?? Please provide further details since it's a very important info for us boxing fans...
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  11. CarlesX7

    CarlesX7 Shit got real! Full Member

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    Technically, yes. But realistically, that's not the case. Fighters will always come in at a weight that's as close as possible to the highest limit.

    And personally, I never liked the idea of a catchweight anyway.
     
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  12. ninebar

    ninebar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    When Henry Armstrong took Barney Ross's Welterweight Title off him at the end of the thirty's he weighed in at 133 while Ross was 142, never gonna happen in this day and age but still some feat.
     
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  13. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :good:good:good
     
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  14. buxzer

    buxzer Eastern Champ Full Member

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    Of course, most boxers want to maximize their weight utilization (or advantage) and usually weigh-in at the division's permitted upper limit but on some special cases, a boxer opted not to have the higher weight limit in order to have advantage in other department like for example the speed department...

    If a boxer doesn't come in at the maximum upper limit of the division, we usually speculate that he built for speed and/or he has a great training camp that he's well within the division limit...
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  15. CarlesX7

    CarlesX7 Shit got real! Full Member

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    True, good post.

    PS: Cotto on the other hand, doesn't want to gain a speed advantage (and won't gain one if he attempts it, weighing 145 won't make a difference), and is known to have trouble making a weight that's lower than 146-147 for the last 3 years or more.
     
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