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Weight class (boxing)

Index Weight class (boxing)

A weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers. [1]

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Amateur boxing

Amateur boxing (also called Olympic Boxing) is a variant of boxing practised at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations.

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Antonio Margarito

Antonio "Tony" Margarito Montiel (born March 18, 1978) is a Mexican American professional boxer.

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Atomweight

Atomweight (also referred to as light minimumweight, junior strawweight, and pinweight) is a weight class in combat sports.

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Bantamweight

Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Boxing at the Summer Olympics

Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time.

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Boxing News

Boxing News is a British weekly boxing magazine published by Newsquest Specialist Media, a subsidiary of Gannett.

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BoxRec

BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional boxers, both male and female.

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Catchweight

A catchweight is a term used in combat sports, such as boxing or mixed martial arts, to describe a weight limit that does not adhere to the traditional limits for weight classes.

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Cruiserweight (boxing)

Cruiserweight, also referred to as junior heavyweight, is a weight class in professional boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight.

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Dehydration

In physiology, dehydration is a deficit of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.

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ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN.

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Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Flyweight

Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Human body weight

Human body weight refers to a person's mass or weight.

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International Boxing Association (amateur)

The International Boxing Association, originally the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur and still referred to as the AIBA is a sport organization that sanctions amateur (Olympic-style) boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships.

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International Boxing Association (professional)

The International Boxing Association (IBA) is an organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and inter-continental championships.

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International Boxing Federation

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).

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Kickboxing weight classes

Kickboxing weight classes are weight classes that pertain to the sport of kickboxing.

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Kilogram

The kilogram or kilogramme (symbol: kg) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK, also known as "Le Grand K" or "Big K"), a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy stored by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Saint-Cloud, France.

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Light flyweight

Light flyweight, also known as junior flyweight or super strawweight, is a weight class in boxing.

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Light heavyweight

Light heavyweight, or junior cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Light middleweight

Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Light welterweight

Light welterweight, also known as junior welterweight or super lightweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Lightweight

Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing.

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List of bantamweight boxing champions

This is a list of bantamweight boxing champions who are currently recognized by the following boxing organizations.

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List of cruiserweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world cruiserweight boxing champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of featherweight boxing champions

This is a list of featherweight boxing champions, as recognized by boxing organizations.

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List of flyweight boxing champions

This is a List of World Flyweight Boxing Champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of heavyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world heavyweight boxing champions since the introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in about 1884.

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List of light-flyweight boxing champions

The following is a chronological list of light-flyweight boxing champions, as recognized by four of the sanctioning organizations: the World Boxing Association (WBA, founded in 1921), the World Boxing Council (WBC, founded in 1963), the International Boxing Federation (IBF, founded in 1983), and the World Boxing Organization (WBO, founded in 1988).

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List of light-heavyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world light heavyweight boxing champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of light-middleweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Light Middleweight / List of World Super Welterweight / Junior Middleweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of light-welterweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Super Lightweight/Light Welterweight/Junior Welterweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of lightweight boxing champions

This is a list of world lightweight boxing champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of middleweight boxing champions

Champions were recognized by public acclamation.

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List of minimumweight boxing champions

This is a list of minimumweight boxing champions (also known as strawweight boxing champions), as recognized by boxing organizations.

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List of super-bantamweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of super-featherweight boxing champions

This is a list of Super featherweight boxing champions, as recognized by boxing organizations.

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List of super-flyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Super Flyweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of super-middleweight boxing champions

This is a chronological List of World Super Middleweight Boxing Champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of welterweight boxing champions

Beginning with Mysterious Billy Smith to Harry Lewis, the welterweight world champions listed below are more widely recognized in the United States and are not as widely sanctioned as the boxers that follow.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH (born December 17, 1978) is a Filipino professional boxer and politician, currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines.

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Metrication

Metrication or metrification is conversion to the metric system of units of measurement.

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Middleweight

Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Minimumweight

Minimumweight, also known as strawweight or mini flyweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Mixed martial arts weight classes

Mixed martial arts weight classes are weight classes that pertain to the sport of mixed martial arts.

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National Sporting Club

The National Sporting Club was a club founded in London in 1891, which did more to establish the sport of boxing in Great Britain than any other organisation.

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New York State Athletic Commission

The New York State Athletic Commission or NYSAC, also known as the New York Athletic Commission, is a division of the New York State Department of State which regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New York, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, professional wrestlers, seconds, ring officials, managers, and matchmakers.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Photo op

A photo op (sometimes written as photo opp), short for photograph opportunity (photo opportunity), is an arranged opportunity to take a photograph of a politician, a celebrity, or a notable event.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement.

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Pound for pound

Pound for pound is a ranking used in combat sports, such as Boxing or Mixed martial arts, of who the better fighters are relative to their weight (i.e., adjusted to compensate for weight class).

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Professional boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is a regulated, sanctioned boxing.

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Professional wrestling weight classes

In professional wrestling, a weight class is a standardized weight range for the wrestlers.

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Rounding

Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a shorter, simpler, or more explicit representation; for example, replacing $ with $, or the fraction 312/937 with 1/3, or the expression with.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Slang dictionary

A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.

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Steam room

A steam room is an enclosed space with large amounts of high-temperature steam, creating a high-humidity environment.

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Stone (unit)

The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds (6.35029318 kg).

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Super bantamweight

Super bantamweight, also known as junior featherweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to.

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Super cruiserweight

Super Cruiserweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Super featherweight

Super featherweight, also known as junior lightweight, is a weight division in professional boxing, contested between and.

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Super flyweight

Super flyweight, also referred to as junior bantamweight or light bantamweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to.

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Super heavyweight

Super heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and competitive bodybuilding.

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Super middleweight

Super middleweight, or light cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Taekwondo weight classes

In taekwondo, a weight class is a standardized weight range for taekwondo practitioners.

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The Ring (magazine)

The Ring (often called The Ring magazine) is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine.

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Trash-talk

Trash-talk is a form of insult usually found in sports events.

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Walker Law

The Walker Law passed in 1920 was an early New York state law regulating boxing.

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Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association (WBA) is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBC, and WBO.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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World Boxing Organization

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is a sanctioning organization which recognizes professional boxing world champions.

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Wrestling weight classes

In many styles of wrestling, opponents are matched based on weight class.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_class_(boxing)

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