Quote Originally Posted by Mr140 View Post
Marbale when you say Manny jump all these divisions lets not forget he was not even full grown when you started boxing he was only 16 years of age. Not to crucial but if you 44 pounds means you jumped 10 divisions have far to many weight classes. I mean Holyfeild when he was a grown man was 177 when he started his career and fought guys who were 240 or 250 still manged to win some of them.
Absolutely agree. People focus on the number of weight classes instead of the weight. I was a little guy coming up in boxing and I know all too well that there are way too many weight classes in the lower weights. I mean they're separated by 3 or 4 pounds. In the amateurs I would often box at 106, 112, and sometimes 119 throughout the year. If I were a professional I would have been fighting at 5 different weight classes in one year without even changing much in the size of guys! Henry Armstrong held down 3 weight classes and drew at the 4th one. But if we keep it real we look at the weight and what Armstrong did was go from 126 to 160, 4 weight classes, easily besting a 105 to 118 run which happens to be a ridiculous 5 different weight classes.