Lightweight

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1 Professional boxing
- 1.1 Professional Champions
2 Amateur Champions
- 2.1 Olympic Champions
- 2.2 Pan American Champions
3 Kickboxing

[edit] Professional boxing

The lightweight is the 130 pounds (59 kilograms) to 135 pounds (61 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. In England, it equates to the weight bracket of 9 st 3 lb - 9 st 8 lb.

Notable lightweight boxers includes Bummy Davis, Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong, Joe Gans, Tony Canzoneri, Carlos Ortiz, Ike Williams, Amir Khan, Roberto Duran, Alexis Arguello, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Hector Camacho, Julio César Chávez, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Oscar De La Hoya, Sugar Shane Mosley, Jose Luis Castillo, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Diego Corrales, and the current lightweight champion Joel Casamayor.

[edit] Professional Champions

List of lightweight boxing champions

[edit] Amateur Champions

[edit] Olympic Champions

1904 – Harry Spanger (USA)
1908 – Frederick Grace (GBR)
1920 – Samuel Mosberg (USA)
1924 – Hans Nielsen (DEN)
1928 – Carlo Orlandi (ITA)
1932 – Lawrence Stevens (RSA)
1936 – Imre Harangi (HUN)
1948 – Gerald Dreyer (RSA)
1952 – Aureliano Bolognesi (ITA)
1956 – Dick McTaggart (GBR)
1960 – Kazimierz Paździor (POL)
1964 – Józef Grudzień (POL)
1968 – Ronald W. Harris (USA)
1972 – Jan Szczepański (POL)
1976 – Howard Davis Jr. (USA)
1980 – Ángel Herrera (CUB)
1984 – Pernell Whitaker (USA)
1988 – Andreas Zülow (GDR)
1992 – Oscar de la Hoya (USA)
1996 – Hocine Soltani (ALG)
2000 – Mario César Kindelán (CUB)
2004 – Mario César Kindelán (CUB)

[edit] Pan American Champions

1951 – Oscar Galardo (ARG)
1955 – Miguel Ángel Péndola (ARG)
1959 – Abel Laudonio (ARG)
1963 – Roberto Caminero (CUB)
1967 – Enrique Regueiferos (CUB)
1971 – Luis Dávila (PUR)
1975 – Chris Clarke (CAN)
1979 – Adolfo Horta (CUB)
1983 – Pernell Whitaker (USA)
1987 – Julio Gonzáles (CUB)
1991 – Julio Gonzáles (CUB)
1995 – Julio Gonzáles (CUB)
1999 – Mario César Kindelán (CUB)
2003 – Mario César Kindelán (CUB)

[edit] Kickboxing

For men's kickboxing, the lightweight division typically includes those who weigh around 132 lbs (60 kg). Women's divisions also use this weight class, but usually at a much lower weight than the men's divisions.

Weight divisions in boxing
Professional boxing
Strawweight \| Light Flyweight \| Flyweight \| Super Flyweight \| Bantamweight \| Super Bantamweight \| Featherweight \| Super Featherweight \| Lightweight \| Light Welterweight \| Welterweight \| Light Middleweight \| Middleweight \| Super Middleweight \| Light Heavyweight \| Cruiserweight \| Heavyweight
Olympic boxing
Light Flyweight \| Flyweight \| Bantamweight \| Featherweight \| Lightweight \| Light Welterweight \| Welterweight \| Middleweight \| Light Heavyweight \| Heavyweight \| Super Heavyweight