A Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant missed out on a huge prize after asking the audience for help on a question about boxing.
It is often a sports fan’s favourite part in a quiz show when a sports-related question comes up, but this can pose a huge challenge for contestants who have minimal knowledge of certain sports.
On this occasion, the boxing-related question caused a huge issue for the participant, Rosie Hurst.
Boxing Question Stumps Quiz Show Contestant
In the episode from March 2025, she managed to successfully get through the first eight questions with no qualms. She had used zero lifelines, so was in a promising position to scoop up a sizeable prize.
Despite this, a major challenge arose when she faced a question for £16,000. She was asked about boxing weight classes. Unsure of the answer, she turned to the audience for assistance by using the first of her four lifelines to help answer the question.
The question asked her to pick what she thought was the heaviest of these four men’s weight divisions: bantamweight, middleweight, welterweight, and flyweight.
Encouragingly, she managed to correctly pick out both bantamweight and flyweight as the two lightest divisions. She was then stuck over the other two options, so she decided to call for help from the audience.
The question was repeated for the audience who voted in majority (63%) for welterweight as the heaviest, with 26% choosing middleweight as the heaviest, with 8% going for flyweight, and only 3% choosing bantamweight.
Following the help, Rosie chose to lock in welterweight as her final answer. Unfortunately, show host Jeremy Clarkson had to break the news to her that, in fact, the crowd had got it wrong, and the correct answer was instead middleweight.
Clarkson ranted to the audience, “You useless imbeciles”, displaying his disappointment for the contestant who had been let down by the crowd.
Rosie’s incorrect answer saw her lose out on the £16,000 up for grabs from the question, and caused her prize to plummet from £8,000 down to just £1,000.
Weight Classes in Boxing
Of the four weight divisions mentioned as possible answers, middleweights are the heaviest boxers, with the weight limit being exactly 160 pounds (72.6kg). Welterweight follows this at 147 pounds (66.7kg). Following that is bantamweight, coming in at 118 pounds (53.5kg), and finally flyweight at 112 pounds (50.8kg).
This is a question that the majority of boxing fans would have been able to correctly answer with ease, but a challenging one for those with limited knowledge of the sport.