The middleweight fighters are to pounds. Fighters weighing to pounds fight in the upper middleweight division, and to pound fighters fight in the light heavyweight division. Cruiserweight division fighters weigh between and pounds. Heavyweight fighters must weigh at least pounds, and they're allowed to weigh anything more than this amount.
Some of the world's greatest and best-known fighters, like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, fought in this weight division. Fitness Training Boxing. By Rachel Nall. Rachel Nall. Rachel Nall began writing in She is a former managing editor for custom health publications, including physician journals. He was the perfect blend of ferocity and skill, and was virtually unbeatable at pounds.
Other historically terrific lightweights include master class boxer Benny Leonard and pioneering technical savant Joe Gans. Top Fighters Today: After a brief pause due to promotional conflicts, Mikey Garcia has reaffirmed his hold on the lightweight mantle through a continued display of precise technical mastery and artful footwork. Meanwhile, the athletically gifted Jorge Linares is riding a tidal wave of resurged excellence to lay his claim to being one of the best lightweights in the world today.
Top Historical Fighters: Aaron Pyror was a fearsome boxer-puncher who ran roughshod of junior welterweight competition in the early s. He was so gifted and feared he failed to secure bouts against other similar weight greats of that timeframe like Sugar Ray Leonard.
Meanwhile, Julio Cesar Chavez, also listed among the greatest junior lightweights, was just as formidable as a junior welterweight. He can fight equally dangerous from both the orthodox and southpaw stance, and he has a penchant for delivering concussive results. Other top junior welterweights include Mikey Garcia and Sergey Lipinets. Robinson, in particular, is often hailed as the best fighter in any weight class ever.
He was fast, strong and could knock his opponents out with either hand. Spence is a hard-charging body puncher with excellent reflexes and a mean streak. Thurman is a boxer-puncher with tremendous knockout power in his right hand and gliding footwork. Top Historical Fighters: Contemporaries who never faced each other to settle the score, both Thomas Hearns and Mike McCallum are candidates for the title of best junior middleweight ever.
Hearns' stay at the weight was brief but spectacular. His boxing skill and punching power at the weight alone made him almost impossible to defeat. McCallum was atypical in a special way: He was all around excellent at just about every facet of the sport.
Top Fighters Today: Southpaw Cuban Erislandy Lara has long been considered the best of the bunch, but former stablemate Jermell Charlo's recent power surge has many fight fans wondering if Charlo has surpassed Lara as the division's toughest out.
Meanwhile, Jarrett Hurd is absurdly large for the division and has chopped down his opponents as if they were trees. Hurd, of course, is the axe. Top Historical Fighters: Both Carlos Monzon and Marvin Hagler enjoyed terrific title reigns as middleweight champions, but this historically deep weight class also includes the likes of an older but still fantastic Sugar Ray Robinson as well as a young and ethereally exceptional Roy Jones Jr.
Add to the mix the mechanical precision and long title reign of Bernard Hopkins, and you have one of the better bunches of divisional talent in history. Top Fighters Today: Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin battled to a draw in September, leaving many people still wondering who the best middleweight in the world is today.
The middleweight division is locked and loaded for the foreseeable future, and either of those four could be the man to come out on top. Top Historical Fighters: Recent history has provided the two best examples of super middleweight excellence. Both Joe Calzaghe and Andre Ward retired undefeated and on top of the sport. Calzaghe was a fast-handed, stinging puncher who boxed with a unique rhythm and cadence. Ward was a pristine example of pure fundamental boxing. His form was as perfect as any fighter ever, and he had deceptive power in both hands.
Featherweight Featherweight classes are restricted to boxers between 54 kilograms to 57 kilograms. Lightweight The lightweight category sets its limits between 59 kilograms to 61 kilograms. Lighter welterweight The light welterweight is an offshoot of a previous larger and more general division of between 54 to 67 kilograms from the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight categories.
This category limits the boxer to a maximum of 64 kilograms. Welterweight The welterweight category is for boxers between 64 to 69 kilograms.
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