Flyweight

The flyweight is the professional boxing weight class between the light - flyweight and super flyweight. Fighters in this weight class weigh more than 49 kg or less than 52 kg.

• 2.1 Olympic champion
• 2.2 Pan American World Champion

Professional boxing

The flyweight is the last introduced weight class of eight traditional Boxkategorien. All the fighters below the spring weight listed before 1909 - regardless of their size - to bantamweight. The association, which later became the British Boxing Board of Control, 1911 held a battle of Sid Smith crowned for the first flyweight world champion. The dominant from 1914 to 1923 Jimmy Wilde was the first fighter that was recognized both in Britain and in the United States as a flyweight world champion.

Other important are flyweight Pancho Villa, Walter McGowan, Pascual Pérez, Pone Kingpetch, Miguel Canto, Dave McAuley, Mark "Too Sharp " Johnson, Manny Pacquiao, Jorge Arce, Vic Darchinyan, Nonito Donaire and Pongsaklek Wonjongkam.

Current world champion

Amateur World Champion

Olympic champion

Pan American World Champion

Kickboxing

In kickboxing, a flyweight generally weighs 53 kg or less.