bantamweight
Sign in to saveBantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In MMA, bantamweight is .
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- Boxing
- Current world champions
- Current ''The Ring'' world rankings
- Longest reigning world bantamweight champions
- Lineal Champions
- Olympic Champions
- World Champions
- Pan American Champions
- European Champions
- Kickboxing
- Bare-knuckle boxing
- Lethwei
- Mixed martial arts
- Current champions
- Muay Thai
- Wrestling
- See also
- References
- External links
Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In MMA, bantamweight is .
The name for the class is derived from bantam chickens. Brazilian jiu-jitsu has an equivalent Rooster weight.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bantamweight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.