Each weight class provides a different game experience, with
the lightest Flyweight weight class providing a very fast and in - your - face experience, while the heaviest Heavyweight weight class is hard - hitting, and more focused on different aspects of the game.
Fortunately the team that arrived in Mexico City this week includes a number of boxers who have international experience, most notably Light Welterweight James Wallington Jr. and Light Heavyweight Arthur Redden, both of whom won gold medals in the 1967 Pan-American Games, and Harlan (Baby Cakes) Marbley, who will be competing in a new Olympic division, the 106 - pound, or
light flyweight, class.
Not exact matches
NBC signed a three - fight deal with Carbajal in November, and Arum, who has a two - year promotional contract with Carbajal, thinks he can become the first boxer of his weight class to win a million - dollar purse and only the second American ever to win a world championship in the 15 - year history of the junior, or
light,
flyweight division.
Although Carbajal is
light enough to drop to 105 pounds and fight for the even more esoteric strawweight (or mini-
flyweight) crown, he hopes to become a
flyweight (112 pounds), a junior bantamweight (115) and eventually a bantamweight (118), winning four world championships along the way.
UFC 3 contains an incredibly strong fighter roster from the past and present throughout 10 weight divisions comprising of women's strawweight including Joanna Jędrzejczyk; women's bantamweight including Ronda Rousey; men's
flyweight including Demetrious Johnson; men's bantamweight including Dominick Cruz; men's featherweight including Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar; men's lightweight including Conor McGregor and Tony Ferguson; men's welterweight including BJ Penn, Donald Cerrone, Matt Hughes and Robbie Lawler; men's middleweight including Anderson Silva, Georges St - Pierre, Michael Bisping and Robert Whittaker; men's
light heavyweight including Chuck Liddell, Daniel Cormier, Forrest Griffin and Rampage Jackson; and men's heavyweight including Stipe Miocic; and many more fighters besides.