Heavyweight
The heavy weight is a weight class , which in the following sports are: boxing , wrestling , judo , varieties of karate , weightlifting , powerlifting , mixed martial arts and Taekwondo .
Boxing
In boxing, the heavyweight is one of the oldest weight classes. For professionals it is the highest weight class with no upper weight limit. Currently, only boxers who weigh more than 200 lbs (90.72 kg) are allowed to compete . The downward limit used to be lower. For amateurs, heavyweight was also the highest weight class until 1984, where there was no upper limit. The lowest limit was over 158 lbs (71.67 kg) from 1904 to 1908, over 175 lbs (79.38 kg) from 1948 to 1950, and over 81 kg from 1952 to 1983. Since 1984 the lowest weight limit is over 81 kg and the highest 91 kg. At the Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles in 1984, the super heavyweight was introduced, which has since been the highest weight class without a limit (over 91 kg).
The first world champion according to the Queensberry rules was the Irish -born American John L. Sullivan on August 28, 1885 . The first Olympic champion was Samuel Berger , born in Chicago , Illinois , in 1904 in St. Louis , Missouri . The first amateur world champion was the Cuban amateur star Teófilo Stevenson in the Cuban capital Havana with a points victory over the American Marvin Stinson .
In women's boxing , heavyweight is the weight class heavyweight for professionals> 175 lbs (79.38 kg), according to DBV (German Boxing Association)> 81.0 kg.
Other sports
Limits for the heavyweight weight class are for
- Wrestling men 96 to 120 kg, women 67 to 72 kg
- Judo men 100 kg, women 78 kg
- Karate ( Kyokushin Kaikan ) men 80 kg, women 60 kg
- Weightlifting men 94 to 105 kg, women up to 72 kg
- Powerlifting men 120 kg, women 84 kg
- MMA men 205 to 265 lbs
- Taekwondo men 84 kg, women 72 kg