weight categories
Size-based competitive groupings
Weight categories are divisions based on body weight, used in combat sports like boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts to ensure fair competition between athletes of similar size.
Categories range from flyweight and bantamweight at the lighter end to heavyweight at the top: He dropped two weight categories to make the fight.
The term extends to shipping and freight classifications.
- underweightBelow normal mass
- body mass indexWeight-to-height-squared quotient
- middleweightAverage-mass fighter classification
- light heavyweightSecond-heaviest boxing class
- featherweightBoxing class under 126
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