Succesful Short Fighters...

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    In the upper weight classes. Lets say LHW and up or so.

    Langford and Barbados Joe are unbelievably well known names that I don't need to hear fifteen times in the span of an hour. The second tier of extremely successful heavyweights that are on the shorter side are Tyson, Tua and Frazier.

    At LHW, Qawi was all of 5'5 and a half. Maybe the best strictly LHW example of a short and yet extremely succesful fighter.
     
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  2. Minotauro

    Minotauro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tom Sharkey and Tommy Burns were short for heavyweights. Although he wasn't short Marciano had little T Rex arms his reach was only 67" Cristian Mijares has longer arms. Also Mickey Walker was also short and had success at light heavy and heavyweight.
     
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  3. DINAMITA

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    Toney at hw.
     
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  4. Russell

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    Yeah, Marciano was the Campas of the HW division with those arms.:happy
     
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  5. Vantage_West

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    tommy burns,kelvin knocrete,qawi, lindell holmes,laszlo papp



    jake matlala :lol:
     
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  6. mcvey

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    Greb at LH
     
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  7. janitor

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    Jack Dillon
     
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  8. mcvey

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    Excellent choice ,so obvious I forgot him!
     
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  9. CottoDaBodykill

    CottoDaBodykill Boxing Addict Full Member

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    how about naz prince haseem? 5'3 at 122 and 126 ...that's even short for those divisions
     
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  10. Maxmomer

    Maxmomer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Barbados Joe Walcott.
     
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  11. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    :lol::lol::lol:
     
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  12. teeto

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    Does Tyson not qualify as short here guys? Btw, Burns might be the best example,
     
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  13. Russell

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    Yeah, Tyson's a part of the small heavyweight club really. It's weird how you can be "short" in that division to a point and it's really not a hindrance at all.
     
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  14. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    pascual perez at 4ft 11ins -thats short even for a flyweight
    dwight qawi at 5ft 6ins is another one
    marciano had short legs as well as arms -what a puncher
     
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  15. asero

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    pascual perez and pancho villa...short guys with incredible punching power
     
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