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AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament 2008 – Light welterweight. The Light Welterweight class in the 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament competition was the lightest class. Light Welterweights were limited to those boxers weighing between 60 - 64 kilograms .
2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Light welterweight. The Light welterweight competition was the median weight class featured at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and was held at the Mediolanum Forum. Welterweights were limited to a maximum of 64 kilograms in body mass.
The light welterweight class in the boxing competition was the sixth-lowest weight class. Light welterweights were limited to those boxers weighing a maximum of 63.5 kilograms (139.9 lbs). 35 boxers qualified for this category. Like all Olympic boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament.
The men's light welterweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1956 Summer Olympics. The weight class was allowed boxers of up to 63.5 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 24 November to 1 December 1956. 22 boxers from 22 nations competed. [1]
Antonio Cervantes (born December 23, 1945) is a Colombian boxing trainer and former professional boxer who competed from 1961 to 1983. He held the WBA and The Ring light welterweight title twice between 1972 and 1980. In 2002, Cervantes was chosen for the Ring Magazine 's list of 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. [1]
Richard John Hatton MBE (born 6 October 1978) is a British former professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and has since worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. [3] [4] [5] During his boxing career he held multiple world championships at light-welterweight and one at welterweight. BoxRec ranks Hatton as the 11th greatest European ...
Klick vacated the title to move up to the light welterweight division; 6 Sandy Saddler: 6 Dec 1949 – 21 Jan 1957 2 Saddler vacated the title to stay at featherweight; 7 Harold Gomes (def. Paul Jorgensan) 20 Jul 1959 – 16 Mar 1960 0 8 Gabriel Elorde: 16 Mar 1960 – 15 Jun 1967 9 9 Yoshiaki Numata: 15 Jun – 14 Dec 1967 0 10 Hiroshi Kobayashi
