Move a boxer to another weight and how would he do?

Late 80s Tyson at flyweight..









Would be pretty much unknown.

 

Not move but i would of liked Marco Antonio Barrera to have campaigned at Bantam weight for abit longer, if he was around that weight today would of seen some great fights in recent years against Rafa, Mares, Donaire etc. Marco was great when he had that ruthless Seek & Destroy style

 

It's not overly confusing. As a general point without referring to examples yet, I'm not sure styles play any particular role, as they would in say a thread about actually scaling up and down in weight. It's simpler, the better fighters would rise to the top and the also rans would falter in stronger divisions in terms of competition. The reverse is true, fighters that were less successful than their potential would suggest would have relatively more success in a weaker division. Of course, its assessing the potential of fighters and perhaps seeing past what's on paper for underrated fighters that is the essence of this thread. I would think the great, great fighters, the obvious ones, would transition into any weight class in any era. The only talking point here would be could fighters small in proportion for their weight class transition well against larger heavyweights, that's a discussion that's been done a fair bit. Apart from that its probably on an individual basis and the most interesting discussion would be the dark horse type fighters that could perhaps have garnered more plaudits in other divisions.

 

Nonito Donaire, a big Bantam against Montiel, becoming a big Heavyweight :yep

 

Exactly, no one ever talks about Tae-Shik Kim :-(

 

Agreed, as a bit of fun it works. As that definite of 'pound for pound' it's a total non-starter IMO

 

Show 'em Guty Espedas Vs Betulio Gonzalez and if they don't like it punch 'em in the mouth :deal

 

A slight problem is imaginging a heavyweight like Nonito Donaire. It's not ever happened yet, without any known stylistic comparison, even in the loosest sense (I can't think of one anyway) its very difficult to reconcile how that would work with reality. But I suppose its possible in some loose highly theoretical sense.

 

Ayub Kalule may well have been a good middleweight if not forced to cut weight for so long, which shortened his career.

 

But don't you think he'd be able to throw something around/over Wlad's jab? :hey