How tall should a heavyweight boxer be?

Yeah.
Ali will always be the greatest. But Lewis was the complete package.

 

Google Javier Botet. If you can get him trained he meets the criteria. 6’7” 120 pounds.

 

Agree. The great big oversized heavyweights started with Lewis forward


so these days the bigger you are the better you’re going to be, IF you’re talented to go along with the size

when you have a size advantage, you can keep your opponent at bay and reach him while he cannot reach you

 

Objectively, as long as you're as talented as the smaller people, being larger is always better in terms of a boxing match. If Povetkin could somehow remain as coordinated as he is and be 7' instead of 6'2, he would blow past every heavyweight in history, as would George Foreman, Wladimir Klitschko, Anthony Joshua, even really old guys like Joe Louis would be nigh-unbeatable, no heavyweight with anywhere near top skill anywhere near that size has ever been knocked out. Valuev was severely underskilled compared to Joshua, Wlad, and Wilder, but nobody could crack his chin well enough to put him away.

 

Haye had him all over the shop in the last round and I'm certain someone like Wlad or even Joshua/Wilder have enough power to stop Valuev if they land.

 

The taller they get the less co-ordination, slower and less stamina they typically have

One man defies this rule though

One special once in a lifetime fighter

David Price

 

Nope. Valuev IF landed properly had killed dudes like Wilder instantly. To hurt normally Valuev is not like to hurt some bodubuilder A.J, dude was >300 lbs gigantic size boxer, tough as hell.

Valuev was suspect to get outboxed with a glance, thing that Haye did vs Valuev.
Looks he was too slow and 217 lbs Haye had outboxed 332 lbs slow Valuev version.
Damn simple, Valuev was too slow to hit Haye properly.
In this manner yeah, A.J and Wlad or even if in good shape Usyk might OUTBOX him like Haye did. Usyk is 217 lbs like Haye.

 

However, that doesn't change the fact that Valuev was badly wobbled against Haye and one more solid shot to the chin might have put him over.

It's not an argument about whether Valuev can be hurt, he already has been.

 

Facts for western boxers fans are THEIR DREAMS. Their dreams for them are their reality in their imaginable reality.
Please continue, western boxing fans are annyoing with their OWN reality.

Argument to talk with western boxers fans : waste time.

You and guys like you are just fans.

I agree that this Valuev in reality didn't landed anything important on Haye and did with him nothing.

Still for westerners with their money and superiority feeling chips on shoulders even point loss might be interpreted as bad beatup etc.

Nice reality is that western boxing fans here are joke.

 

At least decent human male size, so 6' 2" or above. Ideally 6' 5"+

 

I appreciate that English is not your first language but..

WTF you on about?

 

6'5"

 

You guys saying "at least six four" are crazy. A large-framed 6'3" guy is supposed to what, boil to cruiser (where average height is historically about the same as for light heavy/super middle...in the 5'11-six foot or maybe 6'1 range)? Or hope bridger takes off?

 

I mean, reality sucks, bur whether or not it sucks for them has no bearing on 6'3s capabilities in the modern heavyweight division. They're just at a huge disadvantage in HW, and with the rise of 6'5 cruisers recently, they're not exactly huge in the CW division.