Best wins against physically bigger opponents?

Roberto Duran vs Iran Barkley

 

Moorer against Mike White deserves mention. Especially for rolks that have not seen it and buy into the size always wins matchups.

 

Ran a couple off my head and then checked the stats. There may be better but these were significant size differences

Jerry Quarry, by all accounts thrashed Buster Mathis over 12 rounds. Buster outweighed Jerry by 40 pounds and held a 3" height advantage

James J. Woody at 6'0", fought the monster James J. Beattie, who was 6'9 1/2". Beattie also outweighed Woody by slightly over 42 pounds and Woody won a decision. They got Beattie back on his streak, winning 5 straight when they rematched Woody, who this time went one better and stopped Beattie in 7 rounds.

Lou Nova fought another monster in Ben Moroz, who was 6'8" to Nova's 6'2". Moroz held an 80 pound weight advantage but that meant nothing to Lou who, by all accounts, slaughtered Moroz in 7 rounds.

Probably a better result would be Turkey Thompson against Big Ben. Mroz was almost a foot taller (6'8" to 5'8 1/2") than the diminutive Thompson. Mroz outweighed Thompson by 93 pounds but Turkey knocked Big Ben kicking in 2 rounds.

 

WW/MW Charley Burley 151lbs vs HW Jay Turner 219lbs. 7" in height and 68lbs in weight.

 

Middleweight Tony Mundine took on Australian heavyweight champ Foster Bibron for the big title weighing only 164 1/4 and standing at 5'11 1/2". He knocked out Bibron, who stood 6'3" and weighed 210 1/4, in 11 rounds with Bibron enjoying a 46 pound weight advantage and 3 1/2" in height.

 

Primo Carnera weighed nearly 100lbs more than Tommy Loughran and almost a half foot taller with a much longer reach. Tommy beat him with the jab, clinch and movement.

 

Spinks vs Cooney
Martinez vs Pavlik
Whitaker vs Vasquez
Chocolatito vs Kal Yafai

 

Pacquiao vs Margarito, Oscar, Thurman, Rios and several others.

Loma vs Linares, Campbell, and robbed against Haney who was at least 25 pounds heavier

Duran vs Barkley and Leonard

Dempsey vs Willard and Fulton

Frazier vs Ali

Tyson vs Tucker, Biggs, Green, Ruddock

Langford vs Wills, McVey, Jeannette, Tate

Rahman vs Lewis I

Greb vs Brennan, Miske, Gunboat, Tunney, Loughran, Rosenbloom

 

TIMBER!!

 

A completely fixed affair.

 

Carnera won that fight, mate.

 

Ah, so he did quite handedly too. Dunno why I've always thought he won that one. Must've been thinking of Baer.

 

Joe Louis put on a literal masterclass in every boxistic aspect of the word against Carnera whilst being outweighed by 65lbs and having a 4 inch height and 9 inch reach disadvantage

 

236 pound journeyman Mitchell Ross destroying 300 ib Butterbean

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