Flyweight
In professional boxing, the flyweight is the weight class between the light flyweight and the super flyweight. Fighters in this weight class weigh more than 49 kg and less than 52 kg.
Professional boxing
The flyweight is the most recently introduced weight class of the eight traditional boxing categories. Before 1909, all fighters below featherweight counted - regardless of their size - to the bantamweight. The federation, which later became the British Boxing Board of Control , held a fight in 1911 that crowned Sid Smith as the first world flyweight champion. Dominating from 1914 to 1923, Jimmy Wilde was the first fighter to be recognized as a world flyweight champion in both Great Britain and the United States.
Other major flyweights include Pancho Villa , Walter McGowan , Pascual Pérez , Pone Kingpetch , Miguel Canto , Dave McAuley , Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson , Manny Pacquiao , Jorge Arce , Vic Darchinyan , Nonito Donaire and Pongsaklek Wonjongkam .
Current world champions
| Approving Body | Beginning of rule | World Champion | report | Title defenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBA | April 2, 2011 | Hernan Marquez (Mexico) | 32-2 (25 KO) | 2 |
| WBC | March 27, 2010 | Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (Thailand) | 83-3-2 (45 KO) | 4th |
| IBF | November 20, 2009 | Moruti Mthalane (South Africa) | 28-2 (19 KO) | 3 |
| WBO | July 16, 2011 | Brian Viloria (United States) | 30-3-0-2 (17 KO) | 1 |
Amateur world champion
Olympic world champion
- 1904 - George Finnegan (USA)
- 1920 - Frankie Genaro (USA)
- 1924 - Fidel LaBarba (USA)
- 1928 - Antal Kocsis (HUN)
- 1932 - István Énekes (HUN)
- 1936 - Willy Kaiser (GER)
- 1948 - Pascual Pérez (ARG)
- 1952 - Nathan Brooks (USA)
- 1956 - Terry Spinks (GBR)
- 1960 - Gyula Török (HUN)
- 1964 - Fernando Atzori (ITA)
- 1968 - Ricardo Delgado (MEX)
- 1972 - Georgi Kostadinow (BUL)
- 1976 - Leo Randolph (USA)
- 1980 - Petar Lessow (BUL)
- 1984 - Steve McCrory (USA)
- 1988 - Kim Kwang-Sun (KOR)
- 1992 - Choi Chol-Su (PRK)
- 1996 - Maikro Romero (CUB)
- 2000 - Wijan Ponlid (THA)
- 2004 - Yuriorkis Gamboa (CUB)
- 2008 - Somjit Jongjohor (THA)
Pan American world champion
- 1951 - Alberto Barenghi (ARG)
- 1955 - Hilario Correa (MEX)
- 1959 - Miguel Angel Botta (ARG)
- 1963 - Floreal García (URU)
- 1967 - Francisco Rodríguez (VEN)
- 1971 - Francisco Rodríguez (VEN)
- 1975 - Ramón Duvalón (CUB)
- 1979 - Alberto Mercado (PUR)
- 1983 - Pedro Orlando Reyes (CUB)
- 1987 - Adalberto Regalado (CUB)
- 1991 - José Ramos (CUB)
- 1995 - Joan Guzmán (DOM)
- 1999 - Omar Andrés Narváez (ARG)
- 2003 - Yuriorkis Gamboa (CUB)
- 2007 - McWilliams Arroyo (PUR)
Kickboxing
In kickboxing , a flyweight generally weighs 53 kg or less.
Wrestling
When wrestling , the upper limit of the fly weight is 55 kg (men) or 48 kg (women).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/Articles%20&%20Rules/technical_and_competition_rules_20111025.pdf Technical & Competition Rules, Appendix K AIBA
- ↑ Harry Mullan: Boxing: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to World Boxing . Carlton Books, London, England 1996, ISBN 0-7858-0641-5 , pp. 186 .