What are the five most authentic and popular weight classes in boxing?

5 most popular (in no particular order) are lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight. The two oldest are heavyweight and middleweight. Then you have the original 8… take the first 5 I mentioned and add in flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight.

 

HW
175
160
147
135

There will never be mass appeal for weight classes under 135.

 

As far as authenticity goes, the original 8 weight divisions were heavy, light heavy, middle, welter, light, feather, bantam and fly.

 

When it's going good i like super middle @ 168lbs , for me it's a division that since it's introduction has been intergrated by the sport quiet effortlessly. .

 

hw
mw
ww
lw
fw
those are the divisions with the most historical significance. the rest are more of a transitional division.