Best "blown up" fighters?

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  1. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    ...are often considered blown up cruisers or lhw. Which other fighters had good careers at a weight too high for them?

    Although I'm not sure I consider Evan Fields a blown up HW, but he did look it before his transformation.

    My pick is Pac. He was a blown up junior welter for all or the majority of his time at welterweight. Always looked undersized compared to his opponents.
     
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  3. Babality

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    Just looked at his record. He never outsized an opponent except for.... Chris Byrd and James Toney, two blown up fighters. Granted he was usually the more shredded guy in the ring. But still, just talking weight, he was outsized.
     
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  5. lufcrazy

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    Mayweather as a LMW.
     
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  6. Shrollleftupper

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    Napoles at WW, Rigondeaux at 122, Whitaker at WW
     
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    I don't know much about SRR. When he was a MW, was he blown up, or just heavier due to age?
     
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    Roy Jones.
     
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    Age and he changed from skinny to skinny-fat
     
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  10. Babality

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    Three good performances (one a catchweight). Not a long career but I guess I can accept that.
     
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  11. Contro

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    Duran was a chubby waddling penguin above 147. Lost all of his footspeed but still performed extremely well against certain styles.

    Toney was blown up at cruiser and heavy. A combination of eating too much, weightlifting and steroids basically made him look like an off season powerlifter.

    Tua was blown up after the Ibeabuchi fight. No need for him to be above 225.

    Shane Mosley even when he was older was a small welterweight. He was way blown up with juice in his 154 fights.


    Juan Manuel Marquez was a blown up 130-135lber later in his career on PEDs



    Alot of fighters don't have excess muscle but just don't want to cut the weight to get down to their lowest weight class
    I'm sure Pacquiao could make 140 maybe 135 when he was a bit younger. Mayweather could make 140.
    Cotto could make 147.
    Canelo could make 160.
    Loma could make 130.
     
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  12. lufcrazy

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    Three times he beat the man who was arguably the best LMW in the world.

    Hardly anyone can make that claim yet Mayweather gets very little credit for his LMW tenure, mainly because he's considered blown up.
     
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    Mayweather at Welterweight, Duran at all weights above lightweight, James Toney at Crusierweight and Heavyweight, Roy Jones at heavyweight
     
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  14. Babality

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    Roy beating Ruiz at HW is too little. I don't consider Floyd blown up at welterweight. I think it was just right for him.
     
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    Floyd never weighed above 151 while virtually everyone else at WW was rehydrating to 159-162 so he was nearly always at a 10-12 lb. weight disadvantage; Floyd is a natural LWW
     
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