I understand your arguement even if I don't agree completely with it. In most major competitive sports there is some kind of cutoff based upon natural physical ability based on your body, and you have to make that minimum in either athleticism or compensate with an abundance of ability. Boxing doesn't have a low end cut off but it does have a cutoff at the highend. Once you reach Heavyweight you can be going up against guys outweighing you by 100 lbs. Lower weight boxing may be doomed to be only appreciated by hardcore fans with the exception of some major event. With a serious name you are like an NBA or NFL team, people tend to get behind you and you fight other names (teams) At lower weights its more like the Olympics to the casual fan, you get what you consider a big fight or novelty fight once or twice a decade, even when people pick sides in these fights the casual fan has no frame of reference and just picks who they want based not on what they have seen from the fighter before but something like I share the same ethnic background as the fighter or he seems like a nice guy. Things like the Olympics will always have a spot in our society but can you imagine all of the people who watch the Olympics every 4 years really watching those types of events weekly throughout the year?

My problem with the lower weight classes when I was younger had to do with things being to big not too small, like power or serious competition as some problems people have mentioned. Their heads always creeped me out, big ass bobble heads on little bodies gave me the same chill as those crazy looking aliens on Unsolved Mysteries.