Catch Weights?

[Britkid]

Ban catch weights and everyone associated with them from boxing forever.

Small hall promoters need them desperately, they can keep a bill together if there is a late pull out. Plus there can be some cracking match ups.

I remember a Journeyman Cruiserweight coming in on same day notice to fight the unbeaten Light Heavyweight banger Nicky Piper... The then Adrian (Carl) Thompson won in a big upset and went on to have a stellar career.

That catchweight bout saved a TV date and helped to start to make a big future domestic name. And it did little long term harm to Piper either.

A young John Conteh fought quite a few heavyweights. It was a way of challenging his talent, but without the cost of bringing in expensive quality imports. And I think you will agree Conteh did not have too bad a career.

Catchweight matches will always be needed.

If conteh was a heavyweight then that is fine. Hearns put weights in his shoes against Andries but at least he made the weight.

Hearns was always going to make the weight for the Andries fight, as he had been fighting at 154 and 160. It was also for an alphabet title so was never going to be a catchweight match, Hearns was only interested in the title.

Conteh was fighting at 175ish, thus they were generally catchweight matches. His first defeat was as such.