Heavyweights Average Height: Ring Top 10 1956-2010. Very interesting

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  1. KubratPuluv

    KubratPuluv Guest

    CHAMPIONS NOT included.
    The Ring Top 10 Challengers.

    Average height of heavyweights for Ring's Top 10 challengers.
    Pretty interesting stats:
    The difference in height from the top 10-15 fighters in the 90's and current day is only half an inch.

    Overall, with the exception of a few freakish super heavys (K2,Lewis,Bowe) the vast majority of super heavys have failed to finish in the top 10 of their era.

    The lower half rankings are actually filled with very tall fighters as early as the 70's, it's not just a modern day thing. In the 90's there were actually more super heavys in the lower ranks than modern era.







    1976:
    Average Height: 6′ 2″


    1986:
    Average Height: 6′ 2½″


    1992-1999
    Average Height: 6′ 2 1/2″


    2006-2010
    Average Height: 6′ 3″
     
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  2. Royal-T-Bag

    Royal-T-Bag Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    interesting. kinda puts a lot of the klit fanboys at a loss for one of their favorite reasons as to why the past greats couldn't beat them.
     
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  3. pingree24

    pingree24 Active Member Full Member

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    wheres your source? or is this just some **** you came up with?
     
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  4. bremen

    bremen Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He pulled the numbers out of his ass. The average height of 2008 ring top 10 is close to 6' 5"
     
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  5. nastynas

    nastynas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Let's meet one day so that I can give you an extensive explanation on what the concept of "averages" is.
     
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  6. vargasfan1985

    vargasfan1985 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    ****ing moron. LOL.
     
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  7. Absolutely!

    Absolutely! Fabulous, darling! Full Member

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    Not really, though it does at least question the notion that older fighters would have been too small to compete among today's behemoths (actually a few genuine giants and a lot of fatties).
     
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  8. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    With a few exceptions, heavyweights today aren't much taller, just fatter, less skilled and with less stamina.
     
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  9. jeffjoiner

    jeffjoiner Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I would like to see the fighters included in the averages, maybe a little methodology. Athletes in basketball and football have increased in size, I would be shocked if the same isn't true in boxing.
     
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  10. reed_man02

    reed_man02 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    But not tougher, or have as much heart, or determination or as skilled.
     
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  11. VG_Addict

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    Where did you get "better educated"? And bigger and stronger doesn't always = better.
     
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  12. Nay_Sayer

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    Today's athletes may be bigger, stronger [thanks to PEDs], better fed than yesterday's athletes - but to say that they are better trained and better educated is, at best, subjective.
     
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  13. ludwig

    ludwig Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What makes K2 so great is they are very large AND super athletic. Holmes and Lewis had similar attributes.

    The bottom line in this debate is a 250 lb superb boxer and athlete will have an advantage over a 220 lb superb boxer and athlete.

    Certainly you will get occasions where a guy gives up 30 lbs and finds a way to win (like Haye/Chisora) but when that happens its usually attributable to a gulf in class.

    If one of these young 6'8 or 6'9 super heavyweights like Price, Joshua, or Dychko develops into a fighter close to Wlad's class, and if Wlad is still around by then (doubtful), we might see Wlad struggling against a fighter with size advantages.
     
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  14. KubratPuluv

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    http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Th...Annual_Rating
    2010- average height 6'3...
    2006 - average height 6'3.
    THE AVERAGE for those 5 years is 6'3. You can just link and do the math. This is not including the champions K2. Just like the 90's didn't include Lewis. Who was 6'5-6'6. This year it got tall, but before that nobody that K2 fought were taller or bigger.
     
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  15. Brickhaus

    Brickhaus Packs the house Full Member

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    Current Ring top 10:

    C - Wlad Klitschko - 6'6"
    1 - Vitali Klitschko - 6'7.5"
    2 - Alexander Povetkin - 6'2"
    3 - Tomasz Adamek - 6'2.5"
    4 - David Haye - 6'3"
    5 - Kubrat Pulev - 6'4"
    6 - Robert Helenius - 6'8"
    7 - Denis Boytsov - 5'11"
    8 - Ruslan Chagaev - 6'2"
    9 - Cris Arreola - 6'2"
    10 - Tyson Fury - 6'9"

    Average: 6'4.1"
     
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