Why did heavyweight boxers suddenly get bigger

I think guys who were bigger just started to get into boxing. But it is not fair to have a guy 6-6 260 fight a guy who is like the older heavyweights and 6-2 205..

 

Yes, but they're very good at sitting on the couch playing video games.

 

The average height in Victorian London was about 5' 4''.

Interestingly the average height in some Viking and Saxon settlements, was more like 5' 8''.

this suggests to me that poor nutrition was behind the low average height in Victorian London.

 

I can only speak for my family and myself but my father was taller than my grandfather ever was and in turn my 2 brothers and I are all taller than my father was. One of my brother's kid at 15 is already as tall as him and will undoubtedly end up quite a bit taller. So whether this goes against all the principles of how fast human evolution should be happening or not, the fact that each generation has been getting bigger and I don't bigger as in fatter or more obese, the fact is, it is happening.

Now if you are talking about intelligence increasing with every generation, that's an entirely different matter. Lol.

 

The Vikings were tall for their time and Scandenavians are some of the tallest people on Earth.

 

ROIDS. It's became a science in the world of sport in the 1980's and most everyone at the top did them and to excess.

 

Are they still doing it?

Anyway wasn't it the 70s that steroids and drugs use really took off?

 

This is true the reason the scouts were started in Britain was an attempt to improve the physical condition of British lads for military service for the empire forces .It was noted that during the boar war the Afrikaaner troops were much bigger and fitter than the British forces.poor diet factory work lack of fresh air and water were blamed .HWs in the past possibly up to the 80s trained to meet a weight target Bruno used to aim for 16st 3 if I remember correctly Holmes and most others used to do the same. HWs now seem to get as big as possible using weights protein and possibly other stuff they shouldn't this makes very strong powerful fighters but how they would be in a long fight with a fitter lighter boxer who keeps moving would be interesting.

 

Average human is a fat slob compared to just a few years ago.....

 

The sci fi writer Arthur C. Clark was fond of depicting far-future humans as seven-feet tall three-hundred pound behemoths.

 

I'd say it's almost certainly the **** they pump into foods nowadays, we aren't really eating any new super foods or any differently from years back. The staple diet for years has been meat, fish and veg. Man has no reason to evolve any bigger, infact it's quite the opposite. Manual labour was much more prevalent 50 + years ago, the fact is we just don't need to be that big and strong anymore but we are. It's got to be the food we are eating IMO.

 

You been looking in the mirror again, buddy?

Don't worry about it, that just happens when you get older and that's been going on since caveman times so that's not been affected by evolution.

 

A lot of fighters started lifting weights more. Doing barbell work plus better nutrition. Could explain the increase in weight of heavyweights.