Cruiser weight
The cruiserweight is the weight class under the heavyweight in professional boxing .
The limit these days is 90.72 kilograms (200 pounds). It used to be £ 190 or £ 195, depending on the association.
The weight class is traditionally little respected because it is right below the very lucrative heavyweight division. Also, there isn't a great tradition as it has only existed since 1979. The reason for their introduction was to give smaller and correspondingly lighter heavyweights a fair platform. Dominated z. B. Rocky Marciano in earlier times the heavyweight class with a fighting weight of just 90 kg, so in the course of the 1970s there was a trend towards bigger and heavier boxers.
However, the more talented boxers usually skip the cruiserweight division and, like Michael Moorer and Michael Spinks, switch directly from light heavyweight to heavyweight. Even Roy Jones Jr. had a fight in the heavyweight division, but until then punched never cruiserweight.
Evander Holyfield was the only well-known boxer who combined the three titles of the WBC , WBA and IBF in the cruiserweight division ; the WBO did not exist at the time.
One of the most bizarre fights of all time took place in this class on October 19, 1985 between Lee Roy Murphy and Chisanda Mutti , when in the twelfth round both boxers went down at the same time and only Lee Roy Murphy got up quickly enough before the end of the count.
However, by raising the limit and merging the titles a second time under O'Neil Bell , the class has gained some prestige recently.
The decisive factor in this limit increase is that the new limit roughly corresponds to that of the 91 kilo class of amateurs (called "heavyweight" among amateurs), so that recently many amateur talents have been pouring into this class (amateur world champion Alexander Alexejew , BJ Flores, Matt Godfrey, David Haye , Ertugrul Ergezen, Giacobbe Fragomeni ).