weight class
Fighter size category
A weight class is a category in combat sports and weightlifting that groups competitors by body weight, ensuring roughly equal physical matchups: He dropped two weight classes to fight at welterweight.
The term extends to any tiered system based on size or capacity: trucks in different weight classes, a heavyweight in the featherweight class of startups.
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- arm wrestlingStrength contest using forearms
- weightliftingSport of hoisting barbells
- rehydrationReplacing lost water
- freestyle wrestlingUnrestricted grappling competition
powerlifting · catchweight · clinch · boxing · takedown · Olympic lifting · opponent · kilogram · cut · pound · moving up · scale · title · pound for pound · strawweight · bracket · bout · fight night
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- boxingjab, uppercut, hook, punch, knockout
- wrestlingbody slam, wrestlers, takedown, pinfall, suplex
- classessubclass, superclass, underclass, caste, tier
- weightpound, pounds, kilogram, kilograms, gram
- MMAMMA, mixed martial arts, UFC, octagon, cage
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