When comparing heavyweight champs of the past to present day champs...

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  1. MMJoe

    MMJoe Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Should the "if-they-were-boxing-today-they'd-be-bigger-also" argument be taken into consideration? For instance Rocky Marciano vs Wlad Klitschko.
    Wlad fights at 6'6" 240lb and rocky 5'11" 185llb...would it be prudent to interject that Rocky would probably be 6'3" 225lb in today's world of better *nutrition.




    *or perhaps worse nutrition, with **** they put in our food that makes all of us all a foot taller than our grandpas were.
     
  2. PowerBack

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  3. eze

    eze Everybody Know Me Full Member

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    Rocky would be fighting at LHW if he fought today.



    Consider that aren't both the Klitschko parents way short?
     
  4. MMJoe

    MMJoe Boxing Addict Full Member

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    not sure, but if they are then...what? :huh
     
  5. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    Average height only increased by 1 inch over the time...

    Also Rocky was non stop training, he felt sluggish at 200 lbs.
    185lbs was his optimum.

    You know how boxers today are with modern stuff, and we know how past boxers were with past stuff.
    That's the only comparison we can make that comes close to objective.

    You can't say, if Marciano was x then y because x never was.
     
  6. eze

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    Then it doesn't matter when Rocky is born, his height isn't going to change. It's all on genes. And Rocky is 5'11 on a good day and weighed 185. Never cutting, that was his weight.

    He'd be fighting at LHW... today. He'd be cutting to that weight, if not even to 168 with nutrition today.

    He wouldn't be going up, he'd be going down.
     
  7. guncho

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    marciano would be CW
     
  8. MMJoe

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    so you are not taller than your grandpa?
     
  9. MMJoe

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    Or cruiserweight perhaps? LHW stops at 175, I'm just say'n.
     
  10. lufcrazy

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    they might bulk up a bit more because they only have to fight for 12 rather than 15.

    I'd be exceptionally surprised if anyone entered a hw title fight today weighing less than 200 pounds regardless of their natural weight.
     
  11. OttkeRuiz

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    also women boxers 2 have u seen anne wolfe or vonda ward they are 6 foot + and around 180+ too what do you think about women's chances vs. men in a few years women are getting bigger every year
     
  12. KO KIDD

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    thats such a stupid argument everytime i see it it just looks dumb

    so in the yr 3,000 when ppl evolve even more will the fantasy match up Marciano be bigger than Wlad is currently???
     
  13. OttkeRuiz

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    i mean u take a tough 6 foot woman like anne wolfe or vonda ward w/ today's nutrition and women's rights do u think she could potential hold her own & even bully a little great giant like bob foster or dempsey or even marciano as they approach the same height i fam fascinated by this recently and have been researching women today are bigger, tougher and they want it all why not boxing
     
  14. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    Chavez Jr, can weightdrain 20-30 lbs and fight at middleweight.
    Rocky could make supermiddleweight at the most extreme.
     
  15. OttkeRuiz

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    i hope women get taller and taller I would like 2 see it 4 equality sake now I know what u guys r thinking - ur thinking I'm positively mad BUT i love women and I want 2 see them happy and I feel if they are equal they won't be so cranky around us most times - my woman has hit me with 2 cast iron pots, 1 time a rolling pin, tongs which didn't hurt that bad, a wooden cutting board and a metal strainer which actually hurt the worst - she think every thing in teh kitchen is a weapon - but honestly I think that if women get as big and strong as man and make as much money they will b happier and want 2 make love more and treat me nicer and treat all men nicer - boxing should b a part 2 they should do interracial boxing or I mean inter man-woman boxing is what I mean