I think there is one simple truth.
On average all things considered
Weight IS always an advantage. Thus the reason for the divisions.
And there is no real reason to think that it stops at 200 pounds.
and the litmus test will be.......How many 200 pound HW champions....or even serious contenders will campaign in the ranks as time goes on.
Time will tell.
Dividing lines re: the HW division
Re: Dividing lines re: the HW division
They will eventually need to create another division between CW and HW or make a superHW. We keep growing!BoxBuzz wrote: ↑28 Mar 2018, 14:14 I think there is one simple truth.
On average all things considered
Weight IS always an advantage. Thus the reason for the divisions.
And there is no real reason to think that it stops at 200 pounds.
and the litmus test will be.......How many 200 pound HW champions....or even serious contenders will campaign in the ranks as time goes on.
Time will tell.
Re: Dividing lines re: the HW division
It might not be for another 50 to 80 years... Cruiserweight is so new.
The London Prize Rules had 3 divisions at first... Light, Middle, and Heavy... But as the sport grew and the Queensberry Rules were assembled, they added more divisions to accommodate all the boxers of different sizes.
The Light Heavyweight Division always had many participants fighting at Heavyweight as late as the 1960’s with Doug Jones, Archie Moore, and Harold Johnson. The Heavyweight Division is where the money was...
Eventually we started seeing less interaction between Heavy and Light Heavy and the Cruiserweight Division was born for smaller Heavyweights.. Originally it was 190, but soon moved it to 200. It was difficult for some smaller Heavyweights to make 190... Holyfield nearly died of dehydration following one fight. He was a guy with low body fat.
Light Heavyweight to Cruiserweight is 25 pounds. That is massively more than the previous jump of 7 pounds.. So I think the next jump will be at least 25 pounds. Guys weighing 240 can dry out to that size if Lightweights can do it.
What’s mind blowing to Heavyweights is how lighter weight fighters routinely lose such a high percentage of their body weight for the weigh-in. We never had to do it. A lightweight coming down from 153 like Terence Crawford when he fought at 135 is losing 12% of his body weight. That’s messed up.
That’s a 250 pound man like Anthony Joshua coming down to 220 … and rehydrating back to 250 after the weigh-in... R ya FKKING KIDDING ME??? You’re going to fight 12 rounds after that shitt? .... If you've never done it, it seems impossible.
The London Prize Rules had 3 divisions at first... Light, Middle, and Heavy... But as the sport grew and the Queensberry Rules were assembled, they added more divisions to accommodate all the boxers of different sizes.
The Light Heavyweight Division always had many participants fighting at Heavyweight as late as the 1960’s with Doug Jones, Archie Moore, and Harold Johnson. The Heavyweight Division is where the money was...
Eventually we started seeing less interaction between Heavy and Light Heavy and the Cruiserweight Division was born for smaller Heavyweights.. Originally it was 190, but soon moved it to 200. It was difficult for some smaller Heavyweights to make 190... Holyfield nearly died of dehydration following one fight. He was a guy with low body fat.
Light Heavyweight to Cruiserweight is 25 pounds. That is massively more than the previous jump of 7 pounds.. So I think the next jump will be at least 25 pounds. Guys weighing 240 can dry out to that size if Lightweights can do it.
What’s mind blowing to Heavyweights is how lighter weight fighters routinely lose such a high percentage of their body weight for the weigh-in. We never had to do it. A lightweight coming down from 153 like Terence Crawford when he fought at 135 is losing 12% of his body weight. That’s messed up.
That’s a 250 pound man like Anthony Joshua coming down to 220 … and rehydrating back to 250 after the weigh-in... R ya FKKING KIDDING ME??? You’re going to fight 12 rounds after that shitt? .... If you've never done it, it seems impossible.