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In professional boxing, boxers in the minimumweight division may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg). This is a relatively new weight category for professionals, first inaugurated by the major boxing sanctioning bodies between 1987 and 1990.
The lower limit for "heavyweight" was established in 1948 at 81 kg. When a new limit of 91+ kg was established in 1984, the name "heavyweight" was kept by the 81+ kg class, and the 91+ kg class was named "super heavyweight", a name not currently used in professional boxing. Classes are as follows: [16]
48 kg (105.8 lb) Feminine Flyweight 50 kg (110.2 lb) Feminine Bantamweight 53.5 kg (117.9 lb) Feminine / Masculine Featherweight 57 kg (125.7 lb) Feminine / Masculine Lightweight 60 kg (132.3 lb) Feminine / Masculine Super Lightweight 63.5 kg (140.0 lb) Feminine / Masculine Welterweight 67 kg (147.7 lb) Feminine / Masculine
69 kg (152 lbs) 73 kg (161 lbs) Junior (female youths aged 18 to 20, and female youths at age 17 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) compete in freestyle wrestling in the following eight weight classes: [3] 50 kg (110 lbs) 53 kg (117 lbs) 55 kg (121 lbs) 57 kg (126 lbs) 59 kg (130 lbs) 62 kg (137 lbs) 65 kg (143 lbs)
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
In France it used to be defined as 100 livres (pounds), about 48.95 kg (108 lb), and has been redefined as 100 kg (mesures usuelles), thus called metric quintal with symbol qq. In Spain , the quintal is still defined as 100 libras , or about 46 kg (101 lb), but the metric quintal is also defined as 100 kg; [ 3 ] In Portugal a quintal is 128 ...
The Unified Rules designate limits for fourteen different weight classes in mixed martial arts; all definitions and measurements are in pounds. [3] The strawweight class was added in 2015. [ 4 ] The super lightweight, super welterweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight classes were added in July 2017.
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly 0.453 592 37 kilograms, and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. [1]