most historic weight division?

[boliodogs]

Heavyweights is by far the most historic weight class. Lightweight and middleweight would be a near tie for 2nd place. Boxing began in England and soon came to America. In the beginning there was only one weight class. If you were a boxer you were in the heavyweight or unlimited class. You had to fight any size boxer and no considerations were made for smaller fighters. Later they add a lightweight class and soon after that they added the middleweight class. All the other classes came many years later.

[Penis-Bacon!]

Lightweight for sure.

[soul_survivor]

Top 3 IMO
1.Heavyweights
2.Welterweights
3.Fetherweights

Replace feather with middle and you'd be right

[New England]

most historic?


what does that mean?

most historically significant, meaning cared about by the most people?

HW. not close.



best fighters?

WW. this one is closer. i give the edge to WW because you get a lot more fights at the weight. it's much more common to a fit man to be around 150 lbs than it is for him to be over 175 [200 today]

[The plunger man]

Middleweight is in fact the most historical and hardest division in boxing bar none...and I'm surprised none of you lot actually know this......it's a mathematical answer and it's true .....the average size man walking around is between 5ft 9 to 6ft and what most men actually train down to if your a pro boxer (super fit ) you will fall in the region of a being a middleweight ..which makes it the hardest division as there are many more boxers campaigning at that weight ....that's a fact middlweight is boxing's truest division...people need educating on this forum lol

[The plunger man]

most historic?


what does that mean?

most historically significant, meaning cared about by the most people?

HW. not close.



best fighters?

WW. this one is closer. i give the edge to WW because you get a lot more fights at the weight. it's much more common to a fit man to be around 150 lbs than it is for him to be over 175 [200 today]

Welterweight would be the nearest to middlweight but it's actually middlweight that is the most historic in boxing ...the normal man in the street when he has trained and cut himself down to fight weight is 150-160 ...I actually read this somewhere before in an old boxing book......it's apparently the truest because it represents the average size of the man in the street which means the talent pool would be a lot higher than other divisions

[Jedi Vader]

Heavyweight up until Lewis retired.

[Left Hook Tua]

welter in modern era

robinson, leonard, duran, hearns, delahoya, trinidad, pernell, chavez, mayweather, pacquiao, etc. all had significant fights at 147.