Why does size matter?

No your flipping the argument ,everyone knows Holmes was considered a big HW in his day as was Ali, you just want to troll your thread so have at it, only a fool will agree with you anyway, theres one up top..lol

Everything you state is backwards usually and now you are trying to use Patterson as a dominant era champion or some reasoning here when Liston was the best not Patterson. youtr the biggest liar on here ,you never said Dempsey was 6'1 and couldn't list all the bigger fighters/taller guys he fought . please take a break and regroup.

 

Well don't forget to report yourself...if you don't like the truth and facts theres a ignore option. hope you are tougher in the gym and not a little baby like you are on here.,im going to report you? lol report me for calling you on blatant trolling and lies you posted, you understand everyone practically considered you trolling on this thread right?..you're pathetic.

"But it doesn't matter. You're absolutely determined to throw down roadblocks in considering a topic you yourself chose to raise. It's odd." McGrain

The top mods quote referencing you!

 

I'm 6'3 and have stood next to some known heavyweights in normal shoes. Generally they are shorter than advertised.

Also, when we watch fights, sometimes the fighter listed as an inch or two the shorter man, is in fact an inch or so the taller. Sometimes a fighter who is supposed to be 3 inches taller is barely taller at all. People will say "he didn't look much taller" or "maybe it's the way he stands" but the reason is because someone's height, or both, are listed wrong.

 

I have the same inclinations, but can't really verify it.

There's one instance I'm thinking of....

Before the Foreman vs. Norton bout starts, Joe Louis walks into the ring to greet each fighter. And he kinda looks as big or bigger than both.

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He looks clearly shorter than Foreman and a bit shorter than Norton.

And considering he's listed at 6'2'', while the two of them are 6'4'' and 6'3'', I don't see your point.

 

Joe Louis was probably wearing thicker shoes than boxing soles but he was probably similar height in bare feet, can't have been much less. Probably the same height or close, and in his prime certainly would have been, since he was 60 years old here.
Whether that means Louis was taller than listed, or Foreman and Norton shorter, we can't say.

 

Can't see that myself. Not that it matters.

 

Yeah and when he walks off the ring you can see his shoes. And they don't look like they're helping.

 

Look at Louis when he is standing across Foreman. His eye level looks higher. He looks taller.

 

I'd guess they were all about 6'2.
Foreman, Norton, Louis and Ali.

Hey, I've seen heavyweight fighters' listed heights change over time too. Some might say they grew, and Foreman claimed he grew an inch in his lay-off, but past the age of 19 or 20 it's very unlikely you'll gain even a fraction of an inch in height.

Evander Holyfield was listed as 6'1 in every fight I saw of him until he became a heavyweight, when 6'2 1/2 was the height they settled on.

Mike Tyson's one of the few I've seen whose listed height decreased over the years. In his prime, his managers insisted he was almost 6 foot, actually had him listed as 5'11 3/4.
Years later 5'10 was shown on the tale-of-the-tapes.

 

Weight can be faked at heavyweight too.
No one cares.

 

Maybe Evander Holyfield gain 1 1/2 inches due to PEDs ?

 

HGH can make your skeletal structure actually grow, I believe. So who knows...