Which weight divisions should be abolished?

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  1. TragicMagic

    TragicMagic New Member Full Member

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    Okay, when people talk about the decline of boxing they often point the finger at the ‘alphabet soup’ titles, a revolving door of champions and too many unnecessary weight divisions. So my question to everybody out there is which weight divisions would you think the fight game would be better of without or how should the current system should be changed or altered?

    On the smaller end there are a lot of stupid weight divisions with only a few pounds between them, like super featherweight or junior flyweight. I don’t see why the welterweight division 140-147 had to be chopped into super lightweight and welter. The cruiserweight division cut the heavyweight talent pool in half, historically the best heavies have been between roughly 190 and 220. Today the big heavies don’t have to face the small heavyweight and with guys like Miller, Kownacki, Fury, Ruiz, Ortiz, Stiverne etc. it’s looking more and more like an overweight division. But then I guess a limit of 175 for the light heavies would leave a big unfair gap so maybe cruiser should be capped at 190?
     
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  2. Jamzy ⭐

    Jamzy ⭐ Active Member Full Member

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    Middle Weight.
     
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  3. Limerickbox

    Limerickbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Use the divisions they use in the Amateur system, with maybe one more to in and around cruiserweight.
    That would make 11 weight classes, getting rid of 6, which is fine by me.

    UFC does just fine with 8.
     
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  4. Limerickbox

    Limerickbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Amateur weight classes.

    108lbs
    115lbs
    123lbs
    132lbs
    141lbs
    152lbs
    165lbs
    178lbs
    200lbs
    201+

    Id personally fudge 178 and 200, and stick another category in there, maybe moving HW up to 215
     
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  5. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    All of the super, junior bollocks

    Litterally keep the original weight classes as well as cruiserweight
     
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  6. TragicMagic

    TragicMagic New Member Full Member

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    They seem to have lot of problems with weight cuts in the UFC, but that might be down to poor discipline. The amateurs have a super heavyweight class, but I think that’d Just confuse the public even further, carving up the one division the whole world pays attention to doesn’t seem very wise. Maybe they’ve should cap HW at 230 or something?
     
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  7. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Cruiserweight, 168, and 154 are all mediocre divisions that water down the heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, and welterweight divisions. It’ll never happen, but boxing could do without those three divisions.
     
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  8. Bigdog2002

    Bigdog2002 Active Member Full Member

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    Cruiserseight!
     
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  9. Heavy_Hitter

    Heavy_Hitter Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Cruserweight?
     
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  10. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    Cruiserweight for sure. It's a useless division even though there are good fighters there. Ffs pack on a few more pounds and go to HW.
     
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  11. willcross

    willcross Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'd probably just eliminate 168 and 130
     
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  12. viperzero

    viperzero Member Full Member

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    I agree with cruiser or at least don't make it so big back when cruiser was 190 it wasn't so bad. Super and Junior middle could go too. To many divisions for guys to cave a niche.
     
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  13. Hookie

    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    Get rid of all the junior/super divisions.

    Straw
    Fly
    Bantamn
    Feather
    Light
    Welter
    Middle
    Light Heavy
    Cruiser
    Heavy

    10 divisions
     
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  14. minemax

    minemax Boxing Addict Full Member

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    None, I would say. It's better to decrease the number of boxing organisations.
     
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  15. jhar26

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    The ones with junior and super in them.
     
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