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Superfly or Super fly may refer to:
Mini flyweight, also known as strawweight or minimumweight, is a weight class in combat sports.
A constant-speed propeller is a variable-pitch aircraft propeller that automatically changes its blade pitch in order to maintain a chosen rotational speed. The power delivered is proportional to the arithmetic product of rotational speed and torque, and the propeller operation places emphasis on torque. The operation better suits modern engines, particularly supercharged and gas turbine types.
Light flyweight, also known as junior flyweight or super strawweight, is a weight class in boxing.
The bantamweight division in mixed martial arts refers to a number of different weight classes:
The AIBA World Boxing Championships and the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, it is the highest level of competition for the sport. The championships was first held in 1974 Havana, Cuba as a men's only event and the first women's championships was held over 25 years later in 2001.
The weightlifting competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. Two new weight classes were introduced at these Games, marking the first changes to the Olympic program since 1952. This was the last year that the Clean and press was included as one of the lifts.
Donnie Liboon Nietes is a Filipino professional boxer. He is a world champion in four weight-classes, having previously held the WBO mini-flyweight title from 2007 to 2011; the WBO and The Ring magazine junior-flyweight titles between 2011 and 2016; IBF flyweight title from 2017 to 2018; and the WBO super-flyweight title from 2018 to 2019. He is the longest-reigning Filipino boxing world champion, surpassing in 2014 the record set in 1967 by Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Gabriel "Flash" Elorde. He was one of the three Asian fighters with world titles in at least four weight classes alongside fellow Filipinos Manny Pacquiao and Nonito Donaire.
USA Boxing is the national governing body for Olympic-style amateur boxing. It is overseen by the United States Olympic Committee and the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which sets its rules.
A screw press is a type of machine press in which the ram is driven up and down by a screw. The screw shaft can be driven by a handle or a wheel. It works by using a coarse screw to convert the rotation of the handle or drive-wheel into a small downward movement of greater force. The overhead handle usually incorporates balls as flyweights. The weights helps to maintain the momentum and thrust of the tool to make it easier to operate.
José Kelvin de la Nieve Linares is a boxer who competed in the light flyweight weight class at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics for Spain.
The strawweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing between 106 and 115 lb. It sits between the lighter atomweight division and the heavier flyweight division.
Keith Knox, is an English amateur flyweight and professional light fly/fly/super fly/bantamweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s, who as an amateur won the 1992 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) flyweight title, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Scottish Area flyweight title, BBBofC British flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, and was challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) flyweight title against Jesper Jensen, and International Boxing Organization (IBO) light flyweight title against José García Bernal, his professional fighting weight varied from 107 1⁄2 lb, i.e. light flyweight to 117 lb, i.e. bantamweight.
Boxing at the Pacific Games has been contested since 1963 when it was included as one of ten sports at the First South Pacific Games held in Suva, Fiji. There are presently ten weight classes for the men's competition at the Pacific Games, known as the South Pacific Games prior to 2011, in accordance with the (amateur) International Boxing Association (AIBA) classifications.
Superfly is a series of professional boxing cards centered around the super flyweight division.
