weight classes
Mass-based competitive brackets
Weight classes are divisions in combat sports and weightlifting that group competitors by body weight, ensuring roughly matched physical size.
Boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts each have their own systems: He moved up two weight classes after bulking up.
The term extends metaphorically to any tiered competition: Tesla is competing in a different weight class than legacy automakers.
Rapid forceful taking
- clean and jerkTwo-stage weightlifting technique
- powerliftingMaximal barbell competition sport
- olympic liftingCompetitive snatch and clean-and-jerk
- deadliftGround-to-hip barbell raise
squat · bench press · kilograms · pounds · platform · bodyweight · total · records
Lightest boxing division
- catchweightNo fixed weight class
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- weigh-inOfficial mass verification
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
snatch
Rapid forceful taking
- clean and jerkTwo-stage weightlifting technique
- powerliftingMaximal barbell competition sport
- olympic liftingCompetitive snatch and clean-and-jerk
deadlift · squat · bench press · kilograms · pounds · platform · bodyweight · total · records · nationals
strawweight
Lightest boxing division
- catchweightNo fixed weight class
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- weigh-inOfficial mass verification
- postalmail, mail delivery, stamp, stamps, mail service
- combat sportsboxing, wrestling, MMA, judo, karate
- bodybuildingbodybuilding, muscle, bodybuilders, Mr. Olympia, posing
- weightliftingbarbell, dumbbell, deadlifts, clean, jerk
- Powerliftingbench press, squat, deadlift, total, meet
- Calibrationcalibration, recalibration, zeroing, accuracy check, color calibration
weight classesopen competition
Unrestricted public contest
all-comers · catchweight · no-holds-barred · pound-for-pound
weight, class, weighing, lightweight, heavyweight, classification, rehydrate, featherweight, unweighed