Why are weight divisions named so ******ly?

[Marchegiano]

We all saw Bridger, some kid was killed, it's tragic, but that's a name that requires someone ask why to understand which makes it a bad name.

Cruiser is the second largest ship in the fleet, I guess, and so makes sense to be second largest weight division ... ... ... ... if all the other divisions have nautical terms. Since straw is called straw and not dingy or kayak or some such similar tiny boat that makes cruiser a ****** name that has to be explained.

Middleweight is a great name for a division in the middle of the weight divisions. Middle weight is not that close to the middle anymore. No in actual weights nor number of divisions. Used to be a great name, now it's a ****** name and all we can say is well it used to not be ****** doe.

Straw, Atom, feather, fly, terrible ****ing names for fighters' weight divisions. No one is ever going to respect a fool called the ****ing atom weight champion.

I'm just curious if any of youse know a little more history on the naming. How it happens, a little more insight than Sully came out and told us one day. Plenty of youse old gins were adults in the 80s. Was anything going on at the time? Cruiser seems like a term pulled out of ass but maybe when they launched that there was a bunch of cold war ship propaganda or some such? It's still a ****** name but it'd at least make more sense if something shippy was going on around the same time.





This fool right here fixing to be pitching them Xs.

Nonuple XL Champion = HW


That's ****** too but I know the origins of my own ******ity.


nonuple XS on the other end. ... ... ... I didn't account for small medium and large so what's that 7? Septuple XL/S? Might do it.

[Willie Pep 229]

I heard/read a story that when the WBA in the mid 1960s (into the early 1970s) began to add new "Junior" weights.

(Junior Lightweight [1921] and Junior Welterweight [1922] had an already established history).

Jose Sulaiman was not going to be outdone (or out earned,) so he said his WBC would be expanding its weights as well, but (I paraphrase) "We will never call any champion a junior." Sulaiman's sanctioning body would create 'super' champions instead.

So the WBC came up with the 'super' categories.

I know that doesn't answer your question. But I thought I share.