WBC Creates A New Weight Division

You are correct, Junior sounds "novice" or "inferior", Light sounds better

141 is to help transition smoothly from 5lbs gap to 6lbs gap, avoiding the 7lbs discrepancy between 140 and 147, Light Welter is not as historic as Light or Welter so the change has to be there. More weight changes and new divisions should be introduced if boxing doubles in size in the next decade. Adding weight classes will help reduce the adding of meaningless extra belts, a new division in a period of boxing growth will allow more styles and suppressed boxers from getting a lucky title shot and occasionally KTFO establishment boxers. Adding new belts in the same division has an opposite effect, so its important to encourage the move to add weight classes. Will make a thread on 2020s new weight classes

 

This new weight will be 191-224 i guess?

 

Its actually a good move, it will create more fights, actual world champions...Lots of suppressed -very talented contenders with losses will get to actually make it. Why shrink boxing down?

Establishment promoters and matchmakers will simply have to scale-up. Boxing is too big for anybody to control, creating more divisions is the best thing to happen in 2020.

 

We seem to be in strong agreement. The too many belts in each division is a separate although related issue.

Better to add a few weight divisions and reduce the number of belts. I doubt we ever get back (not soon for sure) to one no question champ per division. But 4-5 belts with silver this and super duper with sprinkles on top that versions of belts has become silly. At the most there s/be three belts per weight class. That way it's not so difficult for a fighter to get all 3 belts or the fighter with 2 belts will often seem like the top dog.

 

The boxing governing bodies is a reflection of the desire of the general public, those peasants bread and milk is what built those shrines for their favorite small-time Saints. If the public become synced into an increasingly monotheistic unified view, then the governing bodies will be forcefully merged. As of the now the demand for all these belts is real (to some extent), someone is paying the fees! The extra divisions will reduce some of the demand on the fringe belts and direct it into productive competition in a new weight class.

If more customers show up, more divisions must be created until the demand is met. The Super-Regular-Belt dystopia is unbearable the governing bodies don't know how much they are harming boxing but they are focused on the fees, adding weight classes is also discomforting but it can at least help expand boxing, each weight class creates 100% certain cash flow of fees, from legit boxers...So they can get their Fiat fix there.

 

So of course the best way to address the lack of depth in the heavyweight division is to cut it in half....?

 

So is cruiser currently 176-200?

If so then it would become 176-190?

Then if I’m understanding this 190-224 would be heavyweight and above 224 would be super heavyweight?

 

It's 16stone.

Maybe they were trying to appeal to the British

 

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Seems like a good a limit actually. What's wrong with it?

 

I look forward to when they decide that the gap between Cruiser and Super Cruiser is too big, and so have to add another division.

 

ohh godd... this sucks.. it cheapens the heavyweight division big time

 

For what it's worth, which is basically nothing, i'd re-organize and re-name the weight classes very simply:

110 Flyweight
115 Bantamweight
120 Featherweight
125 Light Lightweight
130 Lightweight
140 Light Welterweight
150 Welterweight
160 Light Middleweight
170 Middleweight
180 Light Cruiserweight
200 Cruiserweight
220 Light Heavyweight
220+ Heavyweight

 

Too high in my opinion.
175
190
210
This seems ideal to me.
But I guess well see soon.

 

Yet AJ has never failed a test yet the guy in your avatar - Fury, tested positive for steroids.