LaMotta was only 5'8??

I guess average for a middleweight is 5'8 - 5'10

Hagler was listed as 5'9 1/2 but I think he was an inch or two shorter !

How tall is Golovkin ?

 

Emile Griffith-5'7"
**** Tiger-5'8"
Joey Giardello-5'10"
Nino Benvenuti-5'11"
Carlos Monzon-5'-11-1/2"

 

Oh sorry...forgive me, I said "Di ck".

 

Old boy is still alive and going. Though he's probably shrank a few inches by now!

 

From boxrec

Middleweight Measurements
Sergio Martinez 5'10"/73"
Bernard Hopkins 6'1"/75"
Marvin Hagler 5'9.5"/75"
Nino Benvenuti 5'11"/75"
Emile Griffith 5'7.5"/72"
**** Tiger 5'8"/71"
Joey Giardello 5'10"
**** Tiger 5'8"/71"
Paul Pender 5'10"/72"
Terry Downes 5'9"/69"
Paul Pender 5'10"/72"
Ray Robinson 5'11"/72"
Carmen Basilio 5'6.5"
Ray Robinson 5'11"/72"
Gene Fullmer 5'8"/69"
Ray Robinson 5'11"/72"
Bobo Olson 5'10.5"/70"
Ray Robinson 5'11"/72"
Randy Turpin 5'9.5"/74.5"
Ray Robinson 5'11"/72"
Jake Lamotta 5'8"/67"
Marcel Cerdan 5'8"
Tony Zale 5'7.5"/69"
Rocky Graziano 5'7"/68.5"
Tony Zale 5'7.5"/69"
Billy Soose 6'.5"/73"
Ken Overlin 5'9"/70"
Ceferino Garcia 5'6"/70"
Al Hostak 6'
Solly Krieger 5'8"/68"
Fred Apostoli 5'9.5"/70"
Freddie Steele 5'10"/72"
Eddie Babe Risko 5'10"/72.5"
Teddy Yarosz 5'10"/72.5"
Vince Dundee 5'8"/71"
Lou Brouillard 5'7"/72"
Marcel Thil 5'8"/68.5"
Gorilla Jones 5'9"/75"
Mickey Walker 5'7"/67"
Tiger Flowers 5'10"/76"
Harry Greb 5'8"/71"
Johnny Wilson 5'9"/72"
Mike O'Dowd 5'8"/70"
Al McCoy 5'8"
George Chip 5'8"
Frank Klaus 5'7.5"
Stanley Ketchel 5'9"

 

I met Jake a few times and he was about 5'8 give or take, he was a solid guy

 

With the weigh in Lamotta might have made welterweight today.

 

Carmen Basilio at 5'6". What an indomitable will he had. Knowing he was going to have to absorb a ton of leather, to get inside and fight his game. That was one tough SOB. Lamotta vs Basilio, now that's a fight to watch. Jake Lamotta, even the name sounds tough.

 

As to the power, I think that's a function not only of his own mediocre power (and I don't mean that as a put-down; great fighters don't need to all be bone-breakers) but also a function of how hard he was matched throughout his career. Lamotta deserves big credit for fighting the really tough middleweights many others stayed away from. The good fighters don't allow themselves to be mere notches in someone's KO collection.

 

Not likely. He was over 160 as often as he was under it. Never seen a guy miss weight that many times. Eventually, he got tired of that and just moved up to light heavy. But he could probably drain down to 154 for a day before weigh in and rehydrate to around 163.

 

I don't think he missed weight that often just fought at catchweights a lot. Anyway I think he could, in an emergency,Clottey it but he certainly would be more comfortable at 154. But I think 163 is low; more like 168.

 

Turpin was 5-10 and downes 5-11. Minter is just under 6ft by in ring magazine during the 70s I saw him listed at 5-9 and hagler 5-10 even though minter was clearly taller.

 

LaMotta started as an amateur at a portly 190lb and always struggled with his weight.Rocky graziano
once said Jake was a lightweight with a heavyweights head.