Flyweight

Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports.

Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 52 kg (112 lb).

The flyweight division was the last of boxing's eight traditional weight classes to be established. Before 1909, anyone below featherweight was considered a bantamweight, regardless of how small the boxer. In 1911, the organization that eventually became the British Boxing Board of Control held a match that crowned Sid Smith as the first flyweight champion of the world. Jimmy Wilde, who reigned from 1914 to 1923, was the first fighter recognized both in Britain and the United States as a flyweight champion.