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Weight Categories: Flyweight


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The lightest and most recently added weight class in professional boxing, flyweight covers those fighting between 108lb (49kg) and 112lb (51kg).

 

Before 1909, any fighter under featherweight classification was considered to be a bantamweight, regardless of how far below the classification. In 1911, what was to become the British Boxing Board of Control held a match in which Sid Smith was crowned the world’s first flyweight champion. But it was Jimmy Wilde who was recognised as the first...By Chris White

 

 

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