Biggest men of each weight class-

Consider Alexis Arguello. He fought and won a championship at featherweight.
Yet he was taller and had a longer reach than Mike Tyson, and Marciano at
heavyweight.

 

Yeah, and Tank was criticized for knocking him out at 130.

 

Height-wise, I would say Panama Al Brown and Raul Perez at bantamweight. Both unusually tall at 5'9 and 5'10 respectively.

 

Which is weird...how can you be an undersized junior lightweight while simultaneously weighing more than a welterweight?
Day before weigh ins have made weight classes a joke and will eventually make boxing a joke.

 

But how good of a heavyweight would Jacobs have been because he reportedly was when he fought GGG, and he thought it unfair that he was only allowed to be a light heavyweight when he fought Canelo for the middleweight title.

 

Am I the only one who thinks some of these fighters actually rehydrate past their optimum weight? Like they've got a case of 'bigger is better'? I mean I personally can't ever see Santa Cruz boxing as a welterweight in the classic era either - he seems too small even with rehydration. I think people forget that Classic fighters also trimmed their weights as much as they could, but the way some here talk you'd think they walked around at the weight on the dot, all year round.

Same day weigh ins need to be brought back, absolutely agreed. Or Boxing at the very least needs to do what ONE FC does with their fighters (strict on rehydration). Guys like e.g. Canelo make a joke of 'weight classes'.

 

Rocky Marciano vs Roman Gonzalez who wins?

 

C'mon, Marciano can't compete with Chocolate Tito's modern skills.

 

Agree about hearns. Tommy as a welter was redic. Fundora st 154 is insane too.

 

From what I recall, apparently (such early weights are very sketchy) John J Dwyer trained down from 200Ibs to 168Ibs for his Heavyweight contest with Elliot