Joe Louis as the P4P greatest

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This. I'm in that same minority.

 

Braddock was a 6'3 light-heavyweight most of his career, floating around at 174 - 180 pounds and trying to put on some weight (by his own account).
He was up to 193 for those "big wins" later in his career.

 

I thought he was. I'll correct that : he was 6' 2 1/2



I was wrong about his weight, it seems he was up to 182 or 183 for much of his career, almost all the way up to fighting Baer, whereupon he put on 10 pounds. Certainly not a middleweight.

 

Every book with tale-of-the-tape of heavyweight champions that I own has Braddock at 6'2 1/2. At least 3 or 4 books.
As does boxrec, and other websites. I guess I rounded it up half an inch out of habit (I do the same to M.Spinks and M.Baer often too).

It's not something I've been studying closely though and had no idea that most people think his height was inflated for a poster. Nor have I seen alternative heights for him listed.

A man's height can change up to an inch within a day, from morning to night, so I don't know.
George Foreman claimed to have grown a whole inch during his ten year layoff, and I remember 6'1 was a often-quoted height for Holyfield before he moved up to heavyweight.

I don't really hold my own opinion on Braddock's height. I'll see how he looks next to Baer and Louis.
How tall do you think Joe Louis was ?

 

Yeah, I see what you mean. He would have been 6'1 or so as a 175-pounder, by his own reckoning. :good

 

Louis can be called 6'2.

 

Perhaps.
But not a middleweight.