Who is the shortest fighter to compete at heavyweight?

Sam Langford at 5ft6 is definitely one of them.

 

just looked, Tommy Burns at 5 foot 7

 

Never knew Qawi was that small

 

Langford and Burns. In recent years, Toney at 5'9 and Orlin Norris was 5'10. Concrete Davis had a few fights at Heavyweight. He was 5'7.

 

5 foot 1 Joe Walcott fought some guys who competed as heavyweights, like Billy MacKinnon, tho I can't find weights at the times of their fights.

 

Qawi never fought at heavy

 

Walcott was 6 foot 1

 

Toney was not really a committed heavy, just for Holy really

 

Not this again...

Barbados Joe Walcott was 5 foot 1 inch.

 

Oh but he did! I snuck into the venue before he fought George Foreman.Unfortunately I didn’t get to see the fight. Something technicality about needing a ticket.

 

Qawi fought George Foreman. I think that was his only fight at heavyweight.

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oh sorry

 

ya, horrible stint. He never did that again.

 

What? He fought John Ruiz, Hasim Rahman (x2) Rydell Booker, Sam Peter(x2), Fres Oquendo, Dominic Gunn, Lucas Browne and a bunch of other folks. After the Holyfield fight he only fought once below 200 and that was against Lebedev. James Toney actually has a pretty long body of work at heavyweight.

 

my mistake. I just think of Toney as a mw and lhw, that's where he did his best.