Pictures of Heavyweight Champions Standing Next To Each Other

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  1. manbearpig

    manbearpig A Scottish Noob Full Member

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    He's small and fat. Amazing!
     
  2. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Guys, the dirt was not level .. Jeffries is standing on a mini hill ... The ground is also slanted ... Sullivan was 5'10." , Burns 5'7", Jeffries maybe 6'1" and Corbett looks about 6'2" ... I have always felt Corbett's height is slightly under rated from all the photos I've seen of him ..
     
  3. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fight start's staredowns would b best , no high heels and other things 2 stand on in them , should have made it just that .
     
  4. DonBoxer

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  5. DonBoxer

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  6. janwalshs

    janwalshs Active Member Full Member

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    This picture is eyeopening showing the 5'9" ish, 185 lb. Marciano toe to toe with the 6'3" Ali. Can even Marciano's most ardent supporters really think this man could stand toe to toe with monsters like Ali, Foreman, Holmes, Liston and basically any topnotch post 1960 heavyweight?
     
  7. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Who have we got here?

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  8. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    disagree, I spoke to rocky's family personally. He was 5'10 3/4" exact. The reason Ali looks so big in that picture is he was about 230-235lb in that photo, during his exile.
     
  9. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    Marciano was 46 years old in that photo, think for a second. People shrink as they get older not to mention lose muscle mass


    Marciano was NOT 5'9, he was 5'10 3/4"
     
  10. SuzieQ49

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    See this one ass clowns? not as eye opening as you think
     
  11. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This photo is very deceiving - clearly Ali is goofin around - he's quite clearly raising himself up on his tip toes and expanding his chest to his fullest and thrusting his chest and arms out to to appear as giant as possible next to little Marciano - obviously Ali LOOKS RIDICULOUSLY BIGGER in this picture but we all know Ali really wasn't as bigger than Marciano than this picture seems to show him

    as per the previous pictures like this one - thie pic on the left is obviously them side by side so fairly standard - no massive size difference at all really just a short heavyweight and a taller heavyweight - no freakish difference there - and on the right (because of the angle) Ali appears like a giant over a skinny little boy - its all angles

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    again in this picture when they are relative to each other there's no real size difference at all really -again just a short stocky heavyweight and a taller heavyweight but nothing really different??

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    the size thing is really overplayed with Marciano

    does Marciano look as though he's having any real trouble with the size of Ali here?

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    All anyone really needs to do is watch the computer fight to know they'd clearly be no size issue for Marciano with Ali at all
     
  12. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    The computer fight also told me that Marciano would have no trouble with Ali's size (Hence, the result. Marciano TKO13 Ali. Just like against Walcott!?).
     
  13. Jun Fan

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    Tyson never had much of a problem with much bigger heavyweights.
     
  14. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Unless you lived in Britain or Europe...;)
     
  15. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Nothing more perfectly encapsulates the Classicist mentality than people taking a fight staged for film, with an outcome designed to please the demographics of the audience, seriously.

    I once compared this forum to Dungeons and Dragons. I fear that statement was a smear on the credibility of the famed role playing game.