Rocky’s possible weight range?

What is a realistic fighting weight range that Rocky could move around in?

Here’s what we know: He was in tremendous shape for his career. He was low fed, compared to today’s diets, and especially compared to the body types of modern HW competitors.

He had to hide bananas under his bed from Goldman, whom considered regulating Rocky’s food intake as one of his primary roles.

So if he were competing today, what would his weight range be, especially when you see guys who range from 190-240lb today?

 

Why does it bother people that highly contested subjects are often discussed? Perhaps you have the inadequacy? A fear of the truth? A fear of big men? Anyone can play pseudo-Freud.

 

It seems like many fighters today around the CW division blow up when they become a HW. They have more ground to cover in terms of weight gain than fighters in the past who regularly didn’t have to deal with giants. But they seem capable of putting on the 20-30lbs, and giving the best giants of their times fits.

There seems to have been a two decades long push for Rocky to be confined to 180lb. Typically from modernist giant lovers. They find it just fine for “their guys” to jump 40lb and to look bloated. But god forbid you say that Louis or Rocky or Dempsey could’ve put on an easy 20lb and remained almost just as competitive, if not more against certain opponent types.

They tryna marginalize the past greats.

 

How can it be foolish speculation when guys like Holyfield, Tua, and countless other examples did exactly that?

It’s become a norm in modern boxing, and now it’s foolish to speculate that Rocky could’ve experienced the same gains today? Why? Because you want to confine him permenantly as a smaller man so that a fantasy matchup with Lewis is unfeasible?

 

I also didn’t walk to the supermarket today. But it doesn’t mean I couldn’t have.

Where were all the big men in Rockys era that would neccesitate him becoming anything but the fastest he could be? If he could maintain optimal speed, he already has the power. And everyone was nearly his size. Where is the motivation to gain weight? Plug your fingers in your ear holes all you want, but maybe stop crying all over the place. Some of us can handle the sophisticated nature of the topic and would like to discuss it.

 

One good sign of the absence of it would be the focus on small and innocuous mistakes.