This idea of preventing the big fellows from fighting the little fellow works out well up through the classifications from flyweight to heavyweight, But I believe another division injected after the 175-pound limit would be futile and confusing, It would be unfair to match a lightweight, scaling under the 135- pound limit, with a light-heavy, under the 175.pound top, because the good light-heavy should possess almost the same speed and coordination as the good lightweight, And the 40 pound pull in the weights would give the light-heavy a terrific punching advantage, It would be genuinely dangerous for the good little man to meet the good big man, And if many such matches were made, the ring would have many fatalities resulting from brain concussion or internal injuries, However, pugilistic history shows us that a good heavyweight of normal poundage—anywhere from 185 to 210—usually is a better fighter than huge men scaling over 225 pounds, Almost invariably when a boxer weighs more than 225 pounds, he loses the speed and ce-ordination possessed by the normal heavy.
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