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Great find!
Do you have any insight on when the weight limits for the original weight divisions were established?
I know the original Lightweight limit was 133 pounds.
When Barry became the first Bantamweight champion he was basically what we would call a Flyweight. By the time McGovern became champion of that division it was limited to 116 lbs.
Langford was winning the British Middleweight title at 155 pounds.
I am assuming that a governing body must've finally set hard and fast weight limits at some point. But I can't find any reporting on it. -
Originally posted by Rusty Tromboni View Post
I'm not terribly schooled in divisional history, but, I think I know enough to help. I think you want the Walker Law
Starts with the NSC, then the IBU forms, the walker law is passed and the NYSAC is formed.
Weight divisions are informal until the 1910s.
From 1720 until the 1880s there was no authority attempting to designate divisions.
During this time men agreed to weights in the articles of agreement for the fights. So a LW champ could weigh 135 for one defense and 145 for the next.
The National sporting club, formally the pugilistic society and the entity that wrote LPRR and the revision, wrote the first guidelines around 1880 but did not enforce them.
I believe these are the original 8, the NSC's
By 1909 NSC was enforcing the guidelines.
The IBU forms in 1910 and by 1911 has weight divisions.
In 1920 the Walker Law is passed regulating a ton of **** including weight divisions.
I've never seen a list of original NSC divisions or IBU divisions but the Walker Law pops up all the time.Comment
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