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  2. Weight class (boxing) - Wikipedia

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    In boxing, a weight class is a measurement weight range for boxers. The lower limit of a weight class is equal to the upper weight limit of the class below it. The top class, with no upper limit, is called heavyweight in professional boxing and super heavyweight [1] in amateur boxing. A boxing match is usually scheduled for a fixed weight class ...

  3. IBA World Boxing Championships - Wikipedia

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    Cuban Felix Savon is the most successful boxer in the World Amateur Boxing Championships (Men's editions) of all time having won 6 gold medals as a heavyweight. As of 1 August 2021, men are grouped into 13 weight classes as follows: [4] 46–48 kg (Minimumweight) 48–51 kg ; 51–54 kg (Bantamweight) 54–57 kg (Featherweight)

  4. Amateur boxing - Wikipedia

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    Amateur boxing emerged as a sport during the mid-to-late 19th century, partly as a result of the moral controversies surrounding professional prize-fighting.Originally lampooned as an effort by upper and middle-class gentlemen to co-opt a traditionally working class sport, the safer, "scientific" style of boxing found favour in schools, universities and in the armed forces, although the ...

  5. Mixed martial arts weight classes - Wikipedia

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    The Unified Rules designate limits for fourteen different weight classes in mixed martial arts; all definitions and measurements are in pounds. [3] The strawweight class was added in 2015. [4] The super lightweight, super welterweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight classes were added in July 2017. [5] Weight class. Upper weight limit.

  6. United States national amateur boxing championships

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    The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Champion on Olympic boxers for winning the annual national Olympic boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, which is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the World Boxing (since 2023; had been a member of the Association Internationale de Boxe (AIBA ...

  7. IBA Women's World Boxing Championships - Wikipedia

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    Inaugurated. 2001. (2001) (women) Organised by. IBA. The IBA Women's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA, previously known as AIBA), which is the sport governing body. [1][2] The first women's championships were held over 25 years later in 2001. [3]

  8. Naoya Inoue - Wikipedia

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    Naoya Inoue (井上 尚弥, Inoue Naoya, born 10 April 1993) is a Japanese professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, and is one of only three male boxers in history (along with Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk) to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era". [3][4 ...

  9. Katie Taylor - Wikipedia

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    She won the gold medal, defeating Eva Wahlström of Finland in the final of the 60 kg lightweight class. 2005 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship. Later in 2005, at the World Amateur Championships in Podolsk, Russia, Taylor advanced to the quarter-finals in the 60 kg weight class. Here she lost against Kang Kum-Hui, who remains the only ...

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