Joe Gans
71% isn't as impressive for a heavyweight champion. That's probably on the middle-lower end of the scale for HW champions. The best fighter Holmes...
Didn't say Tunney was stronger.
Holmes isn't making anybody's list of strongest/most powerful heavyweights. You are right that there was a shift and that big HWs took over around...
Tunney was a more skillful boxer than Holmes and could definitely have outboxed and outmaneuvered him. He was also much faster, busier, could...
Cool.
You should ask them Dempsey didn't need to pile on weight to beat bigger men, neither did Louis. In fact, Dempsey found the bigger guys easier to...
Tunney's average weight at HW was 187. Holmes fought at or around 210 in quite a fews of his fights so I don't know how that's a 'cherry pick'.
Okay maybe 3 and a half.
Not very wise.
30lbs? Basic mathematics says otherwise. I don't think it's significant and there are many examples in the HW division that bear that out.
No. Prime Holmes weighed in at 209 lbs. Tunney was 192. So that's only 17lbs. Less than 8 kilograms. Considerable but not 'significant'. I don't...
3 rounds
@147 Who wins?
Liston takes him out in 8