Who would have been the Greatest Cruiserweight in History?

How about HW's who weighed under 200? Marciano never weighed in over 200, for example.

 

Let’s make cruiser at its original weight of 190 with same-day weigh-ins and no rehydration beyond what they can ingest through drinking (which would fill their bellies but not reabsorb in time).

Some of these guys mentioned would faint (not feint) on the ring walk shrinking down.

 

True but it’s still not accurate to call them cruiserweights even though they could have competed there

EDIT: ok I suppose Rocky could have dominated

 

Now, come on, now.

Does not. He just never needed to get a better chin.

Literally every single word there makes sense. There are dictionary definitions for all of them. Let me ask you this, Mad. Do you believe in the laws of physics...?

 

You might be on to something...The Sweet Physics of Boxing has a good ring to it.
You should do a poll- The Sweet Physics or The Sweet Science.

 

It's not about the definition in the dictionary only, but the gray matter.

 

Of the guys who reasonably could have made under 200 I will go with pre World War 2 Joe Louis. Joe weighed from 197 to 203 during all of those title defenses and he was fantastic. He would then be followed by Usyk, Marciano and Holyfield, in that order

 

Dempsey
Langford
Marciano

 

I wouldn’t include Ali so it’s Louis.

 

Tyson was never a cruiserweight by any criteria.

 

Tyson was a Cruiserweight at 14 years old pretty much, i would find it hard to fathom him being able to make Cruiserweight as an adult.

I think Michael Spinks and Bob Foster are being overlooked in this discussion aswell.

 

Yeah, I mean, I guess Butterbean was a cruiserweight at some point in his life.