Why is Featherweight heavier than Bantamweight?

[legatoblues]

Guessing it's some old boxing traditionalist thing. What am I missing here?

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[Pooters]

 

[LouisBolanos]

Why is a square called a ring?

#BoxingLogic
#WhereIsWaldo
#Blessed

 

[Shocktagon]

The feather in featherweight is a dinosaur feather, so it's a lot bigger and heavier than you would imagine.

 

[Moral Victory]

#LegitQuestions

In swedish "feather" (fjäder) refers to both a birds feather but also a spring (coiled metal wire), imagine the suspension springs of a large truck and it all makes sense, no need to thank me.

 

[GrewUpSlapBoxin]

A straw is heavier then a feather aswell.

 

[Ruthfella]

 

[Rvd Slmr]

Why is a square called a ring?

As I'm not American or British, I had never realized that it doesn't make any sense. My mind is blown.

 

[Chivas GDL]

Why did Tony Montana kill Manolo ?

 

[ItsTimeToShrekYouUp]

What is a light heavyweight if not an oxymoron?

 

[Concrete Whale]

Why isn't middleweight the middle weight?

 

[davidlemonparty]

bantam is a general descriptive term, meaning smaller or lighter. In your mind it may tie in with feather due to its common association with chickens, but in this context doesn't intend to relate.

light heavyweight seems like an oxymoron, but it isn't really.

Straw and feather and fly are obviously chosen as common light items - they aren't intended a literal descriptor to be ranked.

welterweight comes from the term welter which often referred to a horses handicap weight (this was the welter). I think a common maximum welter was 12 stone = ~170lb, so that seemed a logical choice.

atomweight is stupid. I think boxing call it minimum-weight.

the rest seem obvious.

 

[Yashabo]

#LegitQuestions

In swedish "feather" (fjäder) refers to both a birds feather but also a spring (coiled metal wire), imagine the suspension springs of a large truck and it all makes sense, no need to thank me.

Gör inte en höna av en fjäder nu.

 

[davidlemonparty]

Why isn't middleweight the middle weight?

if memory serves - typically there used to be a single division in boxing and maybe other combat sports. There was heavies and lights. The split point was around 11-12 stone, which is around 160 pounds. So when they started splitting them up further, they did it from the middle, and this original defining weight became the 'middleweight'

of course the numbers have shifted since then - but thats the logic. People are now bigger, heaver, more athletic, better fed, more PED's etc. but manlets still roam amongst us (not on sherdog though it seems - everyone here is huge and ripped).

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

But 145lbs of feathers is heavier than 135lbs of bantams though

I don't see any problem

 

[Tugboat]

Because a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of bantams you idiot.

 

[Gratis]

The names are pointless. I just refer to the weight classes by number (170,185, 205 etc.)

 

[legatoblues]

bantam is a general descriptive term, meaning smaller or lighter. In your mind it may tie in with feather due to its common association with chickens, but in this context doesn't intend to relate.

light heavyweight seems like an oxymoron, but it isn't really.

Straw and feather and fly are obviously chosen as common light items - they aren't intended a literal descriptor to be ranked.

welterweight comes from the term welter which often referred to a horses handicap weight (this was the welter). I think a common maximum welter was 12 stone = ~170lb, so that seemed a logical choice.

atomweight is stupid. I think boxing call it minimum-weight.

the rest seem obvious.

Great post.

This was only slighty a joke thread - I really wasn't sure where the whole "bantam" part came from and only associated it with chickens. Didn't know it was a general term.

Why isn't middleweight the middle weight?

Don't know about boxing, but the first MMA weight classes (in the UFC at least) were:

Heavyweight: 200lbs+
Middleweight: 171-199lbs
Lightweight: 170lbs and below.

So once upon a time Middleweight was indeed the middle weight.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

What is a light heavyweight if not an oxymoron?

A coked up moron?

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Heavyweight: 200lbs+
Middleweight: 171-199lbs
Lightweight: 170lbs and below.

Add featherweight 150lb and below, ban dehydration for making weight, and everything will be wonderful.