Could a 5'9 boxer compete with today’s heavyweight boxing top contenders?

Cruisers are more athletic and fleet footed than HWs so they tend to have better movement that the plodders in the heavier division

Can you imagine a prime Mike Tyson against the Joshua that fought Ruiz????

 

Maybe 5ft11 with shoes on.....he is not that big. He is the same height as Khabib who is roughly the same height as McNugget (174cm or so barefoot).

 

6ft is a lot taller than 5'9.

 

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Ruiz looked taller against AJ than Tyson looks here though:

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Tyson isn't 5'9''. Or at least he wasn't when he was boxing. He was then around 5'10.5'' or 5'11''. I've met him in person.

Andy Ruiz isn't 6'2''. He's way shorter than Evander Holyfield based on their sparring session (when Holy was 48).
Andy is probably 6'0'' or 6'0.5''

 

6ft is not way shorter than 6'2.

 

You`re wrong Ruiz is clearly tucking his chin in keeping his head down making him look shorter:

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Tyson was 5’10 at best, he’s never seen 5’11.

Toney again was 5’9 from the get go.

 

I know a lot of people trashed the Klitschko era and now this one which I do think has good quality but lacks depth at the moment, however I really would love to have seen how Frazier and Tyson would have coped with elite 6’6/6’7/6’8 240-252lb heavyweights who are elite boxers and athletes.

 

Roy Jones was 5'11 though.

 

And he fought what was considered a “weak” heavyweight champion who ironically had a better run at the top level than most other fighters who where considered better.

 

Also Jones would never have beaten a Wlad, a Lewis, a Vitali etc.

 

Roy himself knew that. That's why he picked Ruiz, a not particularly big or hard-hitting HW, beat him, then moved back down to LHW.

 

Fully agree.