Are lower weight classes in boxing kind of like the special oympics?

[fight_professor]

Combat sports only make sense in context of weight classes. Obviously in a free for all, HW's would win. But they are not the most skilled fighters at this time.

[sharpboxxer]

For among other reasons to have an interesting fight. If Rigondeaux or Mayweather were to fight Klitschko what to do you think would happen? They would stay on their bicycles and never get hit. How would we score the fight if K is hit by tippy-tap punches but is unable to hit them?

How entertaining would that be? Ultimately a sport needs to be entertaining to bring in paying customers.

Klitschko would murder those 2 midgets. Would be pretty entertaining

[bklynboy]

Klitschko would murder those 2 midgets. Would be pretty entertaining

Murder means he has to hit them. He would have to punch down and would have to take a lot off his punches to be fast enough to be able to hit them. I don't think he would connect.

They're much faster than him and I don't see Klitschko being able to close the gap. The end result will be a draw. A very boring draw.

[sharpboxxer]

Combat sports only make sense in context of weight classes. Obviously in a free for all, HW's would win. But they are not the most skilled fighters at this time.

There are allot of midgets that cant get into footbal or basketball. Maybe they are more skilled than Lebron James but cant compete because of their size

[-Kev-]

Do you believe Mayweather would be a world champion if there werent weight classes in boxing like there arent in football, basketball, hockey, ...

Lol oh god.

You are not even comparing apples and oranges here, this is a whole new level, this is like comparing fruit and meat.

[fight_professor]

Obviously, but their sports dont involved being punched in the face by a guy much bigger then you.

[sharpboxxer]

Obviously, but their sports dont involved being punched in the face by a guy much bigger then you.

Football involves bashing into each other. Dont you think there are midgets out there like Floyd and Rigondeaux who are very talented in football but cant get into the NFL because of their size???

[Fr3$h]

Do you believe Mayweather would be a world champion if there werent weight classes in boxing like there arent in football, basketball, hockey, ...

lol no even the most mediocre HW would murder him. That guy saying Wlad "couldn't hit" May cracked me up. Good footwork doesn't do much when the guy can touch you from basically anywhere in the ring and walk through your hardest punches.

I'm just saying we don't hit "special olympics" level until the 120 lbs & lower where guys are clinically anorexic for the sake of winning a title.

[Jack Napier]

a good fighter is a good fighter, regardless of weight
there's good fighters/bums at higher weights and lower weights
there's good fights/boring fights at higher and lower weights
don't think less of the lighter weights
just hard to follow low on the scale, they never get much press/TV time
gotta read up on those guys and keep eyes open for a streaming link

[Luilun]

You got guys like Mayweather and Rigondeaux who are considered p4p the best but Wladimir is the real king of boxing.

Mayweather and Rigondeaux are physically inferior to Wladimir just like the athletes in the special olympics

Whats your take on this?

Actually smaller fighters are more skilled that's my take