Welterweight

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Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing also began to use it for their own weight division system. In most sports that use it, welterweight is heavier than lightweight but lighter than middleweight.

Contents 1 Boxing 1.1 Professional boxing 1.2 Olympic champions 1.3 Professional Champions 2 Kickboxing 3 Muay Thai 4 Shoot boxing 5 Mixed martial arts 6 Taekwondo 7 References and Notes

Boxing

Professional boxing

A welterweight boxer weighs in at between 140 pounds and 147 pounds (63.5 kg and 66.7 kg). The weight limit fluctuated between 142 and 145 pounds until it was stabilized at 147 pounds during the reign of Jack Britton in 1920.^[1]

Paddy Duff was the first welterweight champion. He won the title in 1888. Henry Armstrong holds the division record for most title defenses at 18. Freddie Cochran was the longest reigning champion, holding the title four years, six months, and three days (although Jose Napoles comes in a close second at four years, six months, and two days). Sugar Ray Robinson is generally considered to be the greatest welterweight of all time.

Notable welterweights include Bummy Davis, Joe Walcott, Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong, Fritzie Zivic, Sugar Ray Robinson, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Emile Griffith, Jose Napoles, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Pernell Whitaker, Félix Trinidad, Oscar de la Hoya, Shane Mosley , Zab Judah, and current welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr..

Olympic champions

• 1904 – Image:US flag 45 stars.svg Albert Young (USA)
• 1920 – Image:Flag of Canada-1868-Red.svg Bert Schneider (CAN)
• 1924 – Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Jean Delarge (BEL)
• 1928 – Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg Ted Morgan (NZL)
• 1932 – Image:US flag 48 stars.svg Edward Flynn (USA)
• 1936 – Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg Sten Suvio (FIN)
• 1948 – Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia (bordered).svg Július Torma (TCH)
• 1952 – Image:Flag of Poland corrected (bordered).svg Zygmunt Chychła (POL)
• 1956 – Image:Romania flag 1947-1989.png Nicolae Linca (ROM)
• 1960 – Image:Flag of Italy.svg Giovanni Benvenuti (ITA)
• 1964 – Image:Flag of Poland corrected (bordered).svg Marian Kasprzyk (POL)
• 1968 – Image:Flag of East Germany.svg Manfred Wolke (GDR)
• 1972 – Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Emilio Correa (CUB)
• 1976 – Image:Flag of East Germany.svg Jochen Bachfeld (GDR)
• 1980 – Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Andrés Aldama (CUB)
• 1984 – Image:Flag of the United States.svg Mark Breland (USA)
• 1988 – Image:Flag of Kenya.svg Robert Wangila (KEN)
• 1992 – Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg Michael Carruth (IRL)
• 1996 – Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Oleg Saitov (RUS)
• 2000 – Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Oleg Saitov (RUS)
• 2004 – Image:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Bakhtiyar Artayev (KAZ)

Professional Champions

• List of welterweight boxing champions

Kickboxing

Main article: Welterweight (kickboxing)

Muay Thai

Muay Thai has fixed its weight division as similar to boxing. According to World Muay Thai Council (WMC), its welter weight is from 140 pounds (63.5 kg) to 147 pounds (66.6 kg). And World Muay Thai Federation (WMF) which is the official amateur organization fixed from 63.5 to 67 kg for adult. The Junior category is the same as adult.

Shoot boxing

The official rule of shoot boxing says between 65 and 67 kg (143.3 to 147.7 lb) is welterweight.

Mixed martial arts

Main article: Welterweight (MMA)

Taekwondo

In the sport of olympic taekwondo, welterweight falls between 158.8 pounds and 171.1 pounds (72-78 kg). At the weight classes for the olympic games it is 149.9 - 176.0 lb (68-80 kg)

References and Notes

1. ^ Mullan, Harry (1996). Boxing: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to World Boxing. London, England: Carlton Books, 158. ISBN 0785806415. 

Weight divisions in boxing
Professional boxing
Strawweight | Light Flyweight | Flyweight | Super Flyweight | Bantamweight | Super Bantamweight | Featherweight | Super Featherweight | Lightweight | Light Welterweight | Welterweight | Light Middleweight | Middleweight | Super Middleweight | Light Heavyweight | Cruiserweight | Heavyweight
Olympic boxing
Light Flyweight | Flyweight | Bantamweight | Featherweight | Lightweight | Light Welterweight | Welterweight | Middleweight | Light Heavyweight | Heavyweight | Super Heavyweight

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