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| | Amateur and Professional Boxing Weight Classes (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Weight divisions, also called classes, exist in boxing so that competitors can be evenly matched in size. |
 | | This came about because the World Boxing Council (WBC) uses the "Super" tag with the name of the division below, while the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF), and World Boxing Organization (WBO) boxing organizations use the "Junior" tag, associating it with the division above. |
 | | This means, for example, that the divisions called Featherweight, Super Featherweight, and Lightweight by the WBC, are called Featherweight, Junior Lightweight, and Lightweight, by the other organizations. |
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