Featherweight is a weight class in the battle sports of boxing, kickboxing, blended hand to hand fighting, and Greco-Roman wrestling. A featherweight fighter tips the scales at a constraint of 126 pounds (57 kg). In the beginning of the division, this cutoff varied. The British have commonly consistently perceived the cutoff at 126 pounds, however in America as far as possible was at initial 114 pounds. An early hero, George Dixon, moved the breaking point to 120 and afterward 122 pounds. At last, in 1920 the United States fixed the breaking point at 126 pounds. The 1860 battle between Nobby Clark and Jim Elliott is once in a while called the primary featherweight title. Be that as it may, the division just acquired wide acknowledgment in 1889 after the Ike Weir-Frank Murphy battle (one of the most popular battles ever). Since the finish of the 2000s and mid 2010s the featherweight division is one of the most dynamic in boxing with contenders like Orlando Salido, Chris John, Juan Manuel López, Celestino Caballero, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Elio Rojas, Israel Vazquez, Cristobal Cruz, Rafael Márquez, Rocky Juarez, Steven Luevano, Naseem Hamed, Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao.
