Biggest weight gain by a champ/challenger?

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  1. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Of all the men who fought for a world title, recognized by BoxRec, who gained the most weight during his career?
    (From career-lightest to, subsequent, heaviest official weigh-in, as listed in BoxRec)

    Unfortunately, lots of pre-WW2 fighters have no weights listed for some (or many!) of their earliest bouts. For instance, George Carpentier's first (and lightest!) weight is recorded as 168 lbs several years into his career. Which of course is of no use to us in relation to this question... as we all know, he started out as a skinny flyweight. Same thing with Len Harvey.

    But, not to make this too complicated, let's agree that we only consider boxers, whose weights are listed in BoxRec.
     
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  2. port64 jr

    port64 jr Active Member Full Member

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    probably roy jones

    think he wighed in once at like 156 and went all the way up to 200

    he actually weighed in officially at 193 but was 200 as weigh in guy messed up
     
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  3. port64 jr

    port64 jr Active Member Full Member

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    also james toney from like 160 to 220
     
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  4. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    None of the above.
     
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  5. Woller

    Woller Active Member Full Member

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    Georges Carpentier fought from Fly to Heavyweight.
    Tommy Farr and Len Harvey did too.

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  6. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes... but as said at the start of this thread, we only go by the weights we can find in BoxRec.
     
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  7. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Makes that 237. :lol:
     
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  8. Woller

    Woller Active Member Full Member

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    And you might claim that boxrec is correct all the time ?????????

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  9. klompton

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    BOxrec should not be used as the measuring stick. Off the top of my head Willie Meehan and Young Stribling. Meehan started out around 93 pounds and went to at least 1981/2 (although he probably went much higher). Stribling started out at the most as a flyweight and probably smaller and went as high as a very in shape and muscular 195. So much for the theory that you need steroids to move up successfuly.
     
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  10. KOTF

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    Michael Moorer

    171 - career low

    251 - career high
     
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  11. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    That's a difference of 80 lbs!
    Toney went from 157 to 237... also 80 lbs.

    But they are both beaten in this category by at least one man.

    Clue:
    Our man never won a world title.
     
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  12. KOTF

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    Saul Montana (lost to Virgil Hill in a WBA LHW title fight, lost to Vassily Jirov in a IBF CW title fight)

    168 - lowest recorded weight
    251.25 - highest recorded weight
     
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  13. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Both men started out at ages 15 and 16 and were obviously late bloomers in their physical development cycle. Well, not so much Meehan, who more or less ate himself up the weight classes. Either way, it's not as if they were fully grown and mature at their starting weights.

    I'm not saying you need steroids to move up in weight successfully, I'm just saying that using fighters that started off at such young ages and still had a lot of growing to do to prove it doesn't really justify your point. Especially with a fat ******* like Meehan.
     
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  14. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    For a gain of 83ΒΌ lbs!

    I can't swear, I haven't missed someone... but I believe this to be the correct answer.
     
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  15. klompton

    klompton Boxing Addict banned

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    I was referring to Pac who also started out at about 16 years old or so and only gained about 30 or 40 vs 90 or 100.
     
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