Great boxers with significant size advantages over their contemporary opponents(all weight classes)?

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  1. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    I mean world champions or at least outstanding fighters (not Ewart Potgieter, Julius Long, Eric Esch etc.), whose success was based on size advantages like height, reach, body frame, weight... (next to other great individual qualities).

    - For instance, Peter Jackson, one of the first outstanding black heavyweights, was with a height of 6′ 1½″ a giant. At his time (roughly said around 1890) he was at least the equivalent of a "modern superheavyweight", like Bowe and Lewis that fought round about a century later.
    - James J. Jeffries was very tall and massive.
    - Sonny Liston had a freakish reach and a natural big frame.
    - Not to forget the former WBA world champion Nikolai Valuev with a height like an ideal NBA center.
    - Bob Foster (6′ 3″, 79″) was a huge LHW
    - Carlos Monzon was a tall middleweight with a great reach.
    - Thomas Hearns was most times very tall and had an excellent reach.

    and more............?
     
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    Sandy Saddler deserves a mention too.
     
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  3. TipNom

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    Paul Williams
     
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  4. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jimmy Bivins was only 5'9", but had a monstrous 76" reach.
     
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  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Smilar to Hagler 5`9.5 and 75 inch reach.
     
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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Raul Perez, the 5'10" bantamweight.
     
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  7. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Jake LaMotta fought a ton of welterweights and usually came in over 160 when he did it, making him a super middle against guys who weighed in around 150 with rocks in their pockets.
     
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  8. janitor

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  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Jake never had middleweight power though and didn`t have much reach.
     
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  10. Minotauro

    Minotauro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Harry Wills apparently had a 84" reach, that is longer then Wladamir's
     
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  11. The Fighting Yoda

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    Wow, it might be a new information on boxrec. I've never noticed that before.
     
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  12. Saintpat

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    Is that supposed to be some kind of argument that Jake didn’t have any advantage when outweighing opponents by 10-15 pounds or more on the regular?
     
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  13. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    What advantage if he had no reach or power advantage, ability to absorb the smaller guys shots? That would explain Jake`s legendary chin.
     
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  14. Kamikaze

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    Sugar Ray Robinson was a tall guy for the time.
    I hear he was a decent boxer.
     
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  15. Flash24

    Flash24 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The great Alexis Arguello and Carlos Zarate had the height and reach
    of the average Middleweight but they fought as low as Bantamweight/featherweight.
     
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