What size would old cruiserweight be?

[James9753]

What weight division would old sized cruiserweights be in nowadays? It seems with the new limit of 200lbs cruiserweight boxers of today are either drained heavyweights like a Lawrence Okolie or just about big enough to make 200lbs but at a severe disadvantage in terms of size compared to the other larger cruiserweights, who probably rehydrate to anything from 215-220+.

So what size would the old cruiserweights have fit into? Would they have been future light heavyweights instead or still made cruiserweight?

[gilgamesh]

Good question. I wish they'd never changed the Cruiserweight limit from 190 myself. Makes more sense for it to be 190 IMO.

[Cent0089]

I dont think cruisers rehydrates a lot. Usyk is prety big and he weighed 210 lbs against Michael Hunter

Edit: I did not like how weight calsses are now. It should be :
Heavyweight: 200+
Cruiserweight: 200
Light heavyweight: 185
Super Middleweight: 175
Middleweight: 165
Light Middleweight: 158
Welterweight: 150
Light welterweight: 142
Lightweight: 135
-5 lbs in each lower weights
10 lbs rehydratation limit to all weightclasses

[Deslioni]

[Lackeos]

Anyone who fought at 190 before was likely 200 on fight night. Most anyone who was actually 176-189 pounds would just drain down to 175. So anyone who competed at 190-pound cruiserweight was generally 200-205 pounds. Today, they would be fighting at cruiserweight. It would make way more sense than trying to cut 25 pounds to go to LHW, or unnecessarily fighting up at HW for no reason (why would they do that, if they weren't doing it in their own era?).

The rare exception is the dude who weighs exactly 188 pounds. Before, he was like "I'd rather just fight at 190 than try to drain 13 pounds and fight at LHW." Now, he might say "I have no interest in fighting guys who are like 21-24 pounds bigger than me. I'd rather cut 1-2 pounds of legitimate bodyweight and drain 11-12 pounds of water so that I can make 175."

[HomicideHenry]

The limit used to be 195.

Some state commissions STILL list Heavyweight as being 196 and up. I think that is more appropriate than this 220+ bullshit.