Half of the 248 boxers in Paris will be women fighting in six weight classes.
FILE – Bakhodir Jalolov, of Uzbekistan, takes a shot in the nose from Great Britains’ Frazer Clarke during their super heavy weight +91kg semifinal boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. A sport that has been a staple of Olympic programs for over a century, boxing could be dropped before the Los Angeles Games if big changes in governance don’t happen in the next year or two.
FILE – USA Boxing head coach Billy Walsh takes part in drills during a media day for the team in a gym located in a converted Macy’s Department store Monday, June 7, 2021, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Walsh has been an ardent supporter of the women’s sport ever since he coached Katie Taylor of his native Ireland to a gold medal in the Olympic debut of women’s boxing in London, and he says the addition of three women’s weight classes in Paris is “fantastic.
Men’s boxing in Paris will have its fewest weight classes since 1908 in London, where the second boxing tournament in the modern Olympics was contested at just five weights. Three years earlier in Tokyo, men’s boxing already dropped to eight weight classes for the first time since 1948. “When we’ve narrowed down the numbers, it’s also put a big gap in the weight divisions,” Walsh said. “There’s so much gap now. There’s a reason why there are . It’s because of the power of the punch. These guys are hurting you. There’s damage you can do. If some guy is barely making the welterweight division, he’s got 10 kilos he has to put on, and the other guy is coming down from four or five kilos above that, it’s a lot of power in the punch.
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