Why does size matter?

Louis was 6'1.5" source Joe Louis.

 

That sounds about right.
Ali was 6'2 according to Ali.

 

Put any marathon runner (even world record holders) 10 meters away from Anthony Joshua and tell them to run away.

Anthony would catch them, and demolish them.

 

So Foreman is around 6"1.5?

Because if that's Joe Louis height, Foreman is definitely not 6"4. At least not in that clip?

 

Prime Foreman's probably 6'2, I doubt he's 6'3, and he's not 6'4.

 

Watch Foreman vs. 6"7 Cooney
He doesn't look 6"2 at all.
Could he have actually gotten taller?

The plot thickens...

 

Not sure that he would catch them. Bekele ran a 3:47 mile which means he is damn fast in a sprint, likely much faster than a lug like Joshua.

 

Foreman actually did claim he got taller during his 10 year lay-off but that is highly unlikely.
I'm not sure Cooney was really 6'7 anyway.
You have to doubt the lot of them. They usually add an inch or two.
Joe Louis was probably correct in saying he was 6'1.5 though, because if he's shorter than that then the rest of them are even shorter than I suspect.

 

This pyramid scheme has to stop somewhere...

There must be one guy who's height we can 100% verify, who we can then compare to others using photos and video.

 

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Mo Farah has a faster indoor mile than Bekele.
And has a faster 1500m.
And the world record for an indoor 2 mile.


Joshua absolutely demolished him in a sprint by 1.45 seconds.

 

Damn Joshua is a beast!!

Shame on you for holding out on that footage just so you can catch a poster in some trap.
Shame! (But thanks for posting it anyway!)

 

Mo can go faster than that.
Probably taking it easy on his coach's advice. No point injuring himself for the sake of a TV show.

Joshua's 11.53 is awesome though.

 

Marathon runners just have a terrible acceleration.
At 100M, the start is everything. And marathon runners are the worst possible starters for a sprint.

Judging by how he leaned forward at the finish doesn't seem like he took it that easy.

 

Well he has them west african genes... Probably has **** stamina though

 

Mo Farah isn't really a marathon runner, certainly not at this time.
This race occurred in winter 2012, and Farah broke the British 1500m record the following summer, a record that had been set as a world record by Steve Cram in 1985.

Farah has a good sprint finish. Good acceralation.
You might be right, he might be slow out of the blocks.
He did make an effort at the end but that doesn't prove he was going all out. He would have been a fool to go all-out.

I'm not saying he'd beat Joshua, I don't know. Joshua looked phenomenal.
I do think Farah can go quite a bit faster than he did though.