I would have thought possibly light heavy. Steve Logan at just over fourteen stones and about five feet eight was at the top end of the light heavyweight division yet could work with middleweight,lightheavy,midheavy,and probably some of the 'lighter' heavies.Rocco at heavymiddle has wrestled lightweights and some heavies.He wrestled both Count Bartelli and Tibor within a few weeks at Liverpool Stadium. Also with Kendo many times at other venues.Your opinions please.
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By definition heavyweight as it wasn't restricted to the 11-pound category but was open ended, but broadly speaking had plenty of wrestlers from 15 stone up to 20 stone - the same span as through all the divisions down to lightweight put together.
The same could in theory apply to lightweight but there were very few 10-stoners and hardly any lighter at all.
Professional Wrestling introduced Catchweight now sometimes used in MMA
Bernard makes a sound case. In the late 1960s early 1970s I'd go for welterweight. There was such an incredible amount of talent in the lightweights to come up and have a go at a welter, who could also, of course go up against the middles.
I think that most of the weights , where you had one above and one below, would have done quite well.
This would mean that the promoter would have 3 weight categories to choose from (At least), so plenty of work if he wanted you on the books.