Logical boxing weight class divisons (re Grano thread)

[werewolf]

The logical way to do it would be by percentage increments, maybe 12%. They could start at 40 pounds for all I care, little midgets, like they used to have in wrasslin. It makes no sense at all now - bantamweight and super-flyweight 3 pound parameters; middleweight 6 pounds; super middleweight 8 pounds; light heavyweight 7 pounds - but then the next one up is cruiserweight and it jumps to 25 pounds, 175-200! And then the worst one of all, heavyweight, where a guy who weighs 201 is in the same weight class as giants a head taller than him weighing 50 or 100 pounds or more, sky's the limit.

So right now there is no fair place in boxing for a guy weighing 176 or 201, unless he faces a big weight handicap, a much bigger opponent.

I drew up a logical weight class division on some other boxing forum once, or maybe it was here, but I don't know where it is now. But here, using 12% increments, starting with welterweight at 147:

147 welterweight
165 middleweight
185 light heavyweight
207 cruiserweight
232 heavyweight
260 superheavyweight
291 king kong class
291+ godzilla class

1,000lb+ ... OK, now I'm getting silly.





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