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19 sectionsContents
- Boxing
- Professional boxing
- Current world champions
- Current world rankings
- ''The Ring''
- ''BoxRec''
- Longest reigning world lightweight champions
- Amateur boxing
- Olympic Champions
- Men’s
- Pan American Champions
- Kickboxing
- Bare-knuckle boxing
- Lethwei
- Mixed martial arts
- Rowing
- Sumo
- References
- External links
Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing.
==Boxing== ===Professional boxing=== The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxers include Henry Armstrong, Ken Buchanan, Tony Canzoneri, Pedro Carrasco, Joel Casamayor, Al "Bummy" Davis, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Durán, Joe Gans, Artur Grigorian, Benny Leonard, Ray Mancini, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Juan Manuel Márquez, Sugar Shane Mosley, Miguel Ángel González, Carlos Ortiz, Katie Taylor, Edwin Valero, Len Wickwar, Pernell Whitaker, Manny Pacquiao and Ike Williams.