If there was only 8 weight classes, what would happen??

[AntonTheMeh]

you'd still be a moron.

[pistol whip]

Ricky hatton would have more losses with havin to fight at 147.

Of coarse since most welterweights are a lot bigger and stronger than him.

[Spacey1991]

The amount of weight classes don't bother me (well I do think it should start at Flyweight, but that's it)... what annoys me is that there is like 4 world titles per weight class, I think there should just be one.

[Rich Loc]

A great rule would a fighter cannot gain over 5 pounds after official weigh in. If he does the Fight is cancelled

No excuses for fighters like Hatton since he weighs near 160 fight night

[Rich Loc]

The middleweight division would be pretty good.
Kirkland
Pavlik
AA
Santos
Williams
Winky
Dzinziruk
Forrest

LHW would be even better
Cunningham
Adamesk
Dawson
Hopkins
Kessler
Taylor
Froch
Bute
Diaconu
Cloud

WW would be even INSAME

[Madvillain]

LHW would be even better
Cunningham
Adamesk
Dawson
Hopkins
Kessler
Taylor
Froch
Bute
Diaconu
Cloud

Those Cruisers you mentioned wouldn't be there though, they'd be at Heavyweight.

[Rich Loc]

Those Cruisers you mentioned wouldn't be there though, they'd be at Heavyweight.

I stand corrected. Also Margarito/Cotto/Clottey/Shane would all have to fight at 160

And Pavlik/AA move up LHW

[Poet682006]

traditional divisions

Flyweight (Maximum 112 pounds)
Bantamweight (118)
Featherweight (126)
Lightweight (135)
Welterweight (147)
Middleweight (160)
Light Heavyweight (175)
Heavyweight (unlimited)

How would the Top 10 look like for each divisions. Which fighters would be forced to move down or up

Being an "old-school" eight man this is way boxing ought to be along with no alphabet groups muddying the waters and top fighters fighting more than once or twice a year.

I think the champions would shake out like this:

Heavyweight - Vitali Klitschko
Light-Heavyweight - Mikkel Kessler
Middleweight - Vernon Forrest
Welterweight - Shane Mosley
Lightweight - Juan Manuel Marquez
Featherweight - Israel Vasquez
Bantamweight - Vic Darchinyan
Flyweight - Roman Gonzales

Poet

[Rich Loc]

Being an "old-school" eight man this is way boxing ought to be along with no alphabet groups muddying the waters and top fighters fighting more than once or twice a year.

I think the champions would shake out like this:

Heavyweight - Vitali Klitschko
Light-Heavyweight - Mikkel Kessler
Middleweight - Vernon Forrest
Welterweight - Shane Mosley
Lightweight - Juan Manuel Marquez
Featherweight - Israel Vasquez
Bantamweight - Vic Darchinyan
Flyweight - Roman Gonzales

Poet

Good list ...........

[Guest]

8 divisions is all fine and good if fighters fought more.

And more championship matches. Can you imagine waiting for 2 champs to fight for half a year in less divisions?

At least with the current scenario however weird it is, we have a ton of different matches at every weight class and a chance to see fights.

With 8 weight classes, all those guys would have to fight a ton more times per year to even be relevant.


And in todays' don't take a chance because you might miss out on the gravy train atmosphere, I think we'd have fewer fights or guys fighting way out of their division to try to make things work.


The different weight classes 105,108,112,115,118,122,126,130,135,140 seem pretty extreme but I can't see a logical way around it.

Seems like we'd see a lot less fights that way.