How would Tucker have fared as a cruiserweight in his era? He was a skinny guy naturally, could have easily stayed at 190 or 195 in the pros. He would have had tremendous height and reach at the weight.
I didn't realize how many fights he had in the low 200s, and I was about to make a crack about how hard it would be to fight at cruiser with only one leg.
He'd have done pretty OK I believe. Some of the cruisers back then were hardly superstars. In fact there was only one and he was the Real Deal.
He could easily be about 30 lbs below what he in fact was at his best? Or do you mean earlier? At the very start of his career he could maybe have made CW, but don't know how good he was at that stage.
Probably could've had an excellent career at cruiser, at least through most of the 80s. I assume he would have been a solid favorite over the Piet Crouses of the world. Probably drops a decision to young Evander though.
I think he would find it very hard to make 190 with the same day weigh-in when he was a pound or two over 220 in 1986-1987. When he came back after the Tyson loss he was a lot heavier, so at that time it would just about be impossible I think.
Yeah, I think it only works if he adjusts his diet and training to keep his weight down. Would be tough, but he was still competing at 175 when he was 21, so I wouldn't rule it out.
As an amateur? That must be 178 in that case. Still well below 190, though, but he was only below 200 (199) for the very first fight of his pro career. Don't know how he looked then, though, but he was quite lean even at 221-222 five, six years later, so I'd guess that he looked like a stick at around 200, but maybe not.
190 would have been hard for him to maintain for any length of time. I suppose he could have had a few big fights there. Given that the CW division was pretty thin on talent before holy came along I imagine tucker could have been a champion
Not good. Delucia ruined his chance for a gold in 1980 with that upset so he probably was having weight issues for a minute.
