Muay Thai weight categories

Khannie

Hammerheads question in the other thread prompted me to check the weight categories for Muay Thai and I noticed that they're measured in pounds.

But.....whenever I've seen fights billed here, they're always measured in KG. What's the craic there? Is there a different system outside Thailand? If so, what are the weight categories? Or do they even have names?

edit: and for fear of creating a bit of a ruccus (sp?) given the current situation, who decides these weight categories?

kaner97

that link shows the weights in Kilos as well, as far as i know there the same as the weights used in Ireland

Khannie

I don't think so...I'm not basing it on much but....I remember Niall fought at 67KG at armageddon, and was slightly over the weight, but if it were the "66.638" that's specified there, he would have been over by nearly 2 pounds. Also, Darran from bridgestone said to me that my fighting weight is probably 62KG which is a fair weight off "61.235 kg" and "63.503" (the two nearest on that list). Also, the electronic scales in bridgestone is in kilos and it'd be much easier to remember X pounds instead of Y.xyz KG.

...just reading a bit more on that wikipedia site and it says:

"Muay Thai is practiced in a lot of countries and there are different rules depending on what country the fight is in and under what organization the fight is arranged."

so I suppose that explains that.

I'd still like to know what the weight categories are and who decides them though.

paddyc

show me a promoter or coach that can divide by 2.2 and i will show you a man wasting his life by coaching thai.....


laziness, alackof the maths and no ability to use a calculator re the biggest reasons why we use kg's


paddy

ConorT

What about people heavier, do people who are say 95kg just get stuck fighting people who could weight 20kg more than them?

Khannie

paddyc wrote:

the biggest reasons why we use kg's

Why not just use pounds then? They're nice and round for each weight category.

Now I'm /totally/ confused.

cowzerp

Kilo's are way more accurate and are what is used all over europe-pounds and stones are harder to use as there is no 0.1 of a pound only 1/4pound half pound and 1 pound and these are awkward as you could be in the middle of these-with kg you have more accurate guage as the smaller the unit the closer you can get to an accurate reading. kg all the way-like cm over inches-easier to be accurate when measuring.