This subject of the “in between weight” has always been on my mind as myself as a fighter years ago I fought in three weight divisions, super lightheavyweightweight, cruiserweight, and heavyweight. Personally I had most success at cruiserweight due to many different reasons, firstly, and most importantly is the weight you can hold with relation to your frame and height, I found that I was too short (at 6ft and 93kgs) for the heavys and didn’t have the power really to compete with the bigger more natural heavys with the larger more muscular framed bodys, at superlightheavy (83kgs) I had to take too much time and diet down too much to keep the weight, I had too spend 2 hours in the sauna before the weigh in to make weight which as we all know, getting rid of those final couple of kilos of fluid can really take its toll on your fighting ability. Only having 2 fights at this weight I realized I couldn't do it again so the cruiserweight division (86k) was the best for me, I felt as if I'd walk around at 90kgs closer to the fight I'd trim down due to the workload and lose the final couple of kilos in the last few days worked very well and I felt comfortable. So, what I am saying is find your natural weight and fight at this is best.

I'm not entirely sure but the “cruiserweight” division was brought in around the early eighties to add another title in between lightheavy and heavyweight, personally I think its one of the most exciting divisions going due to the guys having the speed of the middles and some have power of the heavys, its also a hard division to go up in though, some have made it to heavyweight stardom going from middle to heavy i.e.. Jason Suttie, and some like Gurkan Ozkan didn't quite make it in the bigger division, some take time to get there, take Steve Mckinnon for example, started out at 76kgs, ten years later virtually unbeaten at 86kgs now after slowly putting on a kilo of good muscle a year he's going into the heavys, now sits at 96kgs and is on a good weight program to keep it there and retain speed, look at Paul Slowinski, more or less exactly the same, put weight on slowly and fighting up the weight divisions and now he has to be one of the best in the world at heavyweight, but look at this.. the shorter Suttie KOs Slowinski with punches.. then months later the taller Slowinski KOs Suttie with a head kick!! Basically.. what's the best?? Taller? Shorter? Better boxer? Faster / fitter? This is the big boys dilemma and will be continued to be played out in the K1 lead ups as more and more cruiserweights put on a bit of beef and try to make it in the world of heavys.