{"id":161525,"date":"2025-08-19T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/las-divisiones-en-el-boxeo-profesional-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:26:34","slug":"the-boxing-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/the-boxing-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxing divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Boxing divisions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The weigh-in is the boxer`s first rival to greet, meet and to beat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">the physical and mental exhaustion cloying and clawing, when, there is not adequate poundage control before the fight and the risk of a serious injury increases, when there is dehydration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">At first, boxing primarily recognized 8 traditional divisions: Heavy, Light heavy, Middle, Welter, Light, Feather, Bantam and Fly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The creation of intermediate divisions managed to effectively reduce the inhumane sacrifices that boxers had to make to stay at the same weight or the disadvantages they gave away,\u00a0 when having to move up to the next category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The following are the current divisions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heavyweight \u2013 Minimum of 224 pounds (101 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bridger Weight \u2013 Up to 224 lbs (101 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cruiser Weight \u2013 Up to 200 lbs. (90,892 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Light Heavy Weight \u2013 Up to 175 lbs. (79,378 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super Middleweight \u2013 Up to 168 lbs. (76,203 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Middle Weight \u2013 Up to 160 lbs. (72,574 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super welter \u2013 Up to 154 lbs. (69,853 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welterweight \u2013 Up to 147 lbs. (66,678 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super Lightweight \u2013 Up to 140 lbs. (63,503 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightweight \u2013 Up to 135 lbs. (61,235 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super Feather \u2013 Up to 130 lbs. (58,967 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Featherweight \u2013 Up to 126 lbs. (57,153 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super Bantamweight or Jr. Feather Weight \u2013 Up to 122 lbs. (55,225 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight \u2013 Up to 118 lbs. (53,525 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Super Flyweight \u2013 Up to 115 pounds (52,163 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fly Weight \u2013 Up to 112 lbs (50,802 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Light Fly Weight \u2013 Up to 108 pounds (48,988 kg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Straw Weight \u2013 Up to 105 lbs. 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