Bantamweight
The bantamweight is a weight class used in boxing, wrestling, and weightlifting.
In boxing and wrestling it lies between the flyweight and the featherweight , in weightlifting it is the lightest class under the featherweight.
Limits
The weight limits of the bantam weight are:
- Professional boxes
- Women: from 115 lbs to 118 lbs (52.163 kg to 53.525 kg)
- Men: from 115 lbs to 118 lbs (52.163 kg to 53.525 kg)
- Olympic Boxing (AIBA)
- Youth female: over 50 kg to 54 kg
- Youth male: over 52 kg to 56 kg
- Women: over 51 kg to 57 kg
- Men: over 52 kg to 53 kg
- Wrestling
- Women: over 48 kg to 51 kg
- Men: over 55 kg to 60 kg
- Weightlifting
- Women: up to 48 kg
- Men up to 56 kg
Surname
The name derives from Bantam from, a bantam breed which in turn probably its name from an earlier so-called Indonesian province received or is lying, the same city.
history
In boxing, the first title fight under the Queensberry rules , which for the first time explicitly provided for gloves, was held in the bantamweight division in 1889 between Chappie Moran and Tommy Kelly .
Notable bantam weights
- Panama Al Brown
- Éder Jofre
- Fighting Harada
- Rubén Olivares
- Lionel Rose
- Alfonso Zamora
- Johnny Owen
- Ronda Rousey
Individual evidence
- ^ "RTL - Weight classes in boxing" , accessed on February 13, 2017
- ^ "Duden - Bantamgewicht" , accessed on February 13, 2017
- ↑ New York City's Greatest Boxers , accessed February 18, 2017.