Boxers with the best physique (excluding Holyfield)

Coetzer on Bruno: "He was physically very strong, not the greatest fighter but very strong. One thing I’m very grateful is I never fought George Foreman in his heyday. [Foreman] was strong but not that strong."

https://www.ringtv.com/584998-best-i-faced-pierre-coetzer/

 

"Best I Faced" is surprisingly helpful when you organize them systematically.

Also, congrats, @Journeyman92. Looks like you called it correctly. Reminds me a bit of those "guess how many gumballs are in the jar" games...

 

Should be said that he has some unexpected picks, though. Evangelista as the most skilled really stands out.

He has Bowe as the biggest puncher as well. Holy had Foreman.

 

True. Though interestingly, neither Holyfield nor Coetzer pick Bowe as the strongest, so there's some consistency there. And both Coetzer and Holyfield agree that Foreman was extremely strong. So there are checks you can do to a degree.

 

By the by, Bruno called Coetzer the strongest man he faced as well.

https://www.ringtv.com/520640-best-faced-frank-bruno/

Some of this comes down to the sort of fight I assume they had, but Bruno's pick suggests Coetzer is an expert here.

 

Dustin Nichols.

 

Amazing that Corbetts thong can offend so acutely some 126 years after the fact…..I would say “still offend” but I don’t recall reading any contemporary protests from back in Jim’s day.

Perhaps Jim received numerous “likes” for his attire from the ladies present.

Just goes to show what a stand alone statement Jimbo made back then.

A real trail blazer. Anyway , I think Corbett had THE best physique…..of any Bank Clerk.

Speaking of natural labouring in lieu of direct weight work - note that Jim’s right forearm was twice the size of his left - ‘twas from all the rubber stamping Jas J did during his days working in the Bank.

The man was like a machine gun. “Reject, reject, reject……”.

 

You’ve never seen Foreman doing it either- a testimony by George said he did it for a few seconds and the photo was meant to be rigged so he didn’t even need to hold it for the shot but they goofed up.

 

Cleveland Williams had arguably the best physique.

Liston, himself no slouch in the muscle dept., said that Williams had muscles coming out of his eyes.

It also seemed that almost every announcer who commentated for his fights made mention of his exceptional build.

The elephants in the room otherwise maybe Butterbean or Andy Ruiz Jr. People talk of symmetry - well these two are perfectly round.

 

Julian Jackson had an awesome physique. Doesn’t look like he lifted weights. Would be interesting to know his training routine though mostly it probably genetics.

 

The fact no one’s bringing up AJ shows how much every one hates him on here.

 

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