What are some famous examples of fighters who pushed things too far climbing weight and simply kept failing because they were too small and climbed too much weight. Not because they weren't good enough, but just too small. I'm looking for guys who made repeated attempts to conquer a weight division where they were simply outmatched in size. Not guys like Mikey Garcia or Rigo who bit off more than they could chew and then moved back down immediately. -Bob Foster -Shane Mosley -Felix Trinidad Let's add some others.
Vasily Jirov at HW. Moorer. Haye and Toney were somewhat limited at HW and couldn't deal with Klitschko type of boxer.
Julio César Chávez was never really any good above 140 because he could not hurt them and was usually warped
True and indeed almost half of his career was effectively at the weight. However, he wasn't the undefeated wrecker that he was at MW, he also had 6 losses and never again achieved the status as boogeyman that he held at MW. At MW it wasn't a stretch to consider him a top 3ish guy, at SMW I don't really consider him ever being higher than maybe 6ish.....I think he was just too small to compete, he was in a bad place, too big for MW but too small for SMW
Jerry Quarry would have been a world champion at Cruiserweight had the division existed during his prime. He was just to small to compete with the top guys at heavyweight like Ali and Frazier.
Honestly I feel like the Cruiserweight divison has quite few guys like Jirov, Gomez, DeLeon, Orlin Norris etc. That were excellent at Cruiserweight but once they chased the big dollars at 200+ they found themselves outgunned. Cruiserweight is kind of a no man's land when you think about it. Pretty big gap from 175 to 200 pounds for those guys mentioned above.
Haye is one of the most overrated fighters in history. beat one decent fighter at cw, a bunch of nobodies at hw.