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Welterweight Kickboxers
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term ''welterweight'' was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents. If used, welterweight is typically between lightweight and middleweight. Etymology The first known instance of the term is from 1831, meaning 'heavyweight horseman', later 'boxer or wrestler of a certain weight' by 1896. This sense comes from earlier ''welter'', 'heavyweight horseman or boxer' from 1804, possibly from 15th century , meaning 'to beat severely'. Boxing Professional boxing A professional welterweight boxer's weight is greater than 140 pounds, and no more than 147 pounds (about 63.5–66.7 kg). Current world champions Current champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 21, 2025. Keys: : Current '' The Ring'' world champion =''BoxRec''= . Longest-reigning world welterweight champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weight Class
Weight classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports including Rowing (sport), rowing, Weightlifting#Weightlifting sports, weight lifting, and especially combat sports such as boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Alternatives to formal weight classes include catch weight and openweight. The existence of weight divisions gives rise to the practice of weight cutting. To be the largest individual in a weight division is perceived as advantageous; therefore many athletes lose weight through dieting and dehydration prior to weigh-ins to qualify for a lower weight class. Comparison Below are selected maximum weight limits for the major classes in different sports. See also * Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu weight classes *Weight class (boxing), Boxing weight classes *Judo#Weight divisions, Judo weight classes *Kickboxing weight classes *Mixed martial arts weig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovani Santillan
Giovani Santillan (born 3 December 1991) is an American professional boxer who has been competing in the sport since 2012. Early life Santillan was born in San Diego, California to parents from Mexico. Amateur career As an amateur, Santillan won the 2004 California State Silver Gloves on Junior division(12–13 years olds) and fought in the finals of the 2005 Junior Division National Silver Gloves. Professional career Santillan beat Imarjoe Miller via Unanimous decision in his debut match. Santillan won the NABO welterweight title against Sammy Valentin and throughout 2017 and 2018, Santillan successfully defended the title two times. Santillan regained the NABO title back in October 2023 after defeating rising star, Alexis Rocha via 6th-round knockout at Kia Forum and makes Rocha taste his first knockout loss. Santillan faced Brian Norman Jr. for the vacant WBO interim welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term ''welterweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Crowley
Cody Crowley (born 25 March 1993) is a Canadian professional boxer. Professional boxing career Crowley made his professional debut against Ronnie Peterson on 28 June 2014. He won the fight by a second-round technical knockout. He amassed an 11–0 record during the next three years, before being booked to face Edgar Ortega for the vacant Canadian Professional Boxing Council's International super-welterweight title on 13 May 2017. He won his first professional title by a dominant unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding him all ten rounds of the bout. Crowley made his first title defense against Richard Holmes on 30 September 2017. He won the fight by a sixth-round technical knockout. Crowley was booked to face Kevin Higson for the vacant Canadian Professional Boxing Council National super welterweight title on 5 May 2018. He won the fight by a dominant unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the fight 100–90 in his favor. Crowely next faced Michi Munoz in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vergil Ortiz Jr
Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' (or ''Bucolics''), the ''Georgics'', and the epic ''Aeneid''. A number of minor poems, collected in the ''Appendix Vergiliana'', were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces. Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting inestimable influence on all subsequent Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position among all the celebrities of human history in ''The House of Fame'' (1374–85), describi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikey Garcia
Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez (born December 15, 1987), best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2021. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes from featherweight to light welterweight, and challenged once for the IBF welterweight title. Early life and education Born to Mexican parents, Miguel Angel's father, Eduardo, was an amateur boxer and trainer of world champion boxer Fernando Vargas at La Colonia Youth Boxing Club. His older brother, Roberto was a professional boxer and a former IBF Super Featherweight Champion who lost his belt to the late Diego Corrales. His oldest brother, Daniel, was a boxer and trainer. He has been featured on ABC's show American Latino TV and he talked about balancing studies with the demands of boxing. Garcia has said he grew up in a "gang-related neighborhood" in Oxnard, California. Garcia said that his parents were both strawberry pickers. Amateur career Garcia star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kell Brook
Ezekiel "Kell" Brook (born 3 May 1986) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2022. He held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title from 2014 to 2017, and challenged once for a unified middleweight world title in 2016. At regional level, he held multiple welterweight titles, including the British welterweight title from 2008 to 2010. In May 2017, Brook was ranked as the world's best active welterweight by '' The Ring'' magazine. Amateur career Brook had his first amateur fight at age 12 under the guidance of Brendan Ingle. At the end of his amateur career, he had won 31 of his 36 fights, winning two Amateur Boxing Association of England titles and two National Association of Boys Clubs British Boxing Championships and a gold medal in the 4 Nations. An early inspiration for Brook was Naseem Hamed, who was also trained by Ingle at the same Wincobank gym. Professional career Welterweight Early career Brook's first fight as a prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Thurman
Keith Fitzgerald Thurman (born November 23, 1988) is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified welterweight world champion, having held the World Boxing Association, WBA title from 2016 to 2019 (promoted to WBA (Super), Super champion in 2017), and the World Boxing Council, WBC title from 2017 to 2018. As of July 2022, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active welterweight by BoxRec. Early life Thurman was born in Clearwater, Florida, to an African-American father and a European ethnic groups, European-American mother of Polish and Hungarian descent. Amateur career Thurman's first amateur fight was in 1997. He was trained by the late Benjamin Getty who worked with Sugar Ray Leonard. Getty took Thurman under his belt as a child and helped shape him into the fighter he is today. Thurman is now trained by Dan Birmingham. Thurman finished his amateur career with 101 victories (76 KO's), he won 6 National Championships including the 2006 PAL National Championships. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Errol Spence Jr
Errol may refer to: People with the given name *Errol Barnett (born 1983), anchor and correspondent for CBS News *Errol Barrow (1920–1987), first Prime Minister of Barbados * Errol Brown (1943–2015), British-Jamaican songwriter, lead singer of Hot Chocolate *Errol Charles (born 1941), current Governor-General of Saint Lucia * Errol Étienne (born 1941), prominent Scottish artist * Errol Fuller (born 1947), English author on extinct animals *Errol Flynn (1909–1959), Australian-American film actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s ** "Errol" (song), a 1981 song in honour of Flynn, on rock band Australian Crawl's album ''Sirocco'' *Erroll Garner (1921–1971), American jazz pianist and composer of "Misty" * Errol Gulden (born 2002), Australian rules footballer (Sydney Swans) * Errol John (1924–1988), Trinidadian actor and playwright * Errol Le Cain (1941–1989), British animator and illustrator *Errol Lloyd (born 1943), Jamaican-born artist and writer * Errol Mann (1941–2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Crawford
Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple quadruple champion#Boxing, world championships in four weight classes, from lightweight to light middleweight, including the undisputed championship (boxing), undisputed championship at light welterweight and welterweight–and is the first male boxer in history to become the undisputed champion in two weight classes in the "four-belt era". He has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight and World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim championship, interim light middleweight titles since 2024. In 2014, Crawford traveled overseas to fight Ricky Burns and won his first world championship, the WBO lightweight title. After two successful defenses, he moved up to light welterweight in 2015 and defeated Thomas Dulorme for the vacant WBO light welterweight title. In 2017, Crawford had a short reign as the undisputed light welterweight champion, being the first since Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BoxRec
BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional and amateur boxers, both male and female. It also maintains a MediaWiki-based encyclopedia of boxing. The objective of the site is to document every professional boxer and boxing match from the instigation of the Queensberry Rules up to the present times. BoxRec publishes ratings for all active boxers and all-time ratings. Since 2012 the site has hosted Barry Hugman's History of World Championship Boxing. Foundation The site was founded by John Sheppard, an Englishman. Sheppard had never attended a boxing bout until 1995 when he attended a "Prince" Naseem Hamed fight with Hamed's older brothers Riath and Nabeel. Sheppard had considered boxing to be a "barbaric and degrading" spectacle, stating "I sat there watching people punch each other in the head, wondering why they were doing it... I was sprayed with blood, getting more and more miserable." However, Sheppard later explained, " ring N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohan Polanco
Rohan Polanco Emiliano (born 15 October 1998) is a Dominican Republic boxer who competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo .... Professional career On December 9, 2023 in Pembroke Pines, FL, Polanco stopped Keith Hunt in the sixth round. On September 27, 2024 in New York, NY, Polanco stopped Marcelino Nicolas Lopez in the sixth round. Polanco was scheduled to face Fabián Maidana in a welterweight bout in Las Vegas on May 4, 2025. Polanco won the fight by unanimous decision. Professional boxing record Notes References External links * 1998 births Living people Dominican Republic male boxers Olympic boxers for the Dominican Republic Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pan American Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
