Adding weight classes to the biggest organization in mixed martial arts, the UFC, has been talked about for years. There’s ten pounds between the flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, and lightweight divisions. As the weight classes go up, the amount of pounds between them increases. There’s 15 pounds between welterweight and middleweight and then it jumps 20 pounds for the light heavyweight division. Heavyweight is of course anything between 207 pounds to 266 pounds, given the extra pound allowance in non-title bouts
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