BoxRec

Thought we were lagging behind current scene with this type of question, you know..."how much money does a K-1 fighter with a 16oz punch bag made of tar and a punch velocity of (x-y squared) minus the hight of Julius Long make...variety so...

How many weight divisions should there be in professional boxing? How big a gap is medically safe? And (for the car...) how many divisions were there in the old days before 20 new sanctioning bodies made boxing better and introduced juniorsupercruiserweight divisions and the like?

This is when they started to contst in the different divisions:
1719: Heavyweight
1853: Middleweight
1887: Bantamweight
1888: Welterweight
1890: Featherweight
1896: Lightweight
1903: Light heavyweight
1913: Flyweight
1921: Junior lightweight
1922: Light welterweight/Super Bantamweight
1962: Light middleweight
1975: Light flyweight
1979: Cruiserweight
1980: Super Flyweight
1984: Supermiddleweight
1988: Strawweight

it doesn't really matter since cotto came in at 157lbs for a 140lbs fight

maybe we should be talking about when fighter weight in. i'd go for the morning off the fight, and if the fighter doesn't make the weight then tuff tit,more often than not a fighter has a fair time to train and get the weight off,if he doesn't the fight gets pulled and the boxer loses his purse also if he can't make the weight then he's in the wrong division

He makes a good point, i think weights and weight making should be under tighter restrictions...i have no idea of a solution but bad weight making and blowing up severely in between fights causes situations like what happened with Pedro Alcazar and others.