Boxers with the best physique (excluding Holyfield)

The thread called for PED free, perhaps they think he is on peds.

At any rate most will nominate non current fighters as it's the Classic forum.

 

Primo Carnera
George Chuvalo
Ken Norton
Marvellous Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard
Michael Watson
Sakio Bika
Tim Bradley
Jeff Lacey

 

I read a long time ago that the chief surgeon who worked on Cleveland Williams after he was shot said the average fit person has something like an eighth of an inch of stomach muscle and Cleveland had like 2 1/2 inches — it was enough to stop the bullet from going through the stomach muscle/lining and into his organs, which would almost certainly have killed him.

Whatever you think of Cleveland as a boxer, his dedication in the gym almost surely saved his life. He didn’t buy that physique at K-Mart … he earned it.

 

Probably said already but Chris Eubank was pretty ripped.

 

D1ck Tiger
Ken Norton
David Haye
Rubin Carter
Harold Johnson
Archie Moore
Jersey Joe Walcott.

In combat sport tho, major difference between show muscle and go-muscle.

There's a fair few fighters that look bigger than prime Foreman that I think Big George would massacre with his functional strength.

 

Ken Norton of course.
Mike Weaver
Roy Jones in his prime
Mike Williams
Bruce Seldon
Marvin Hagler

 

I'd say the most ripped and chiseled specimen was Frank Bruno in the 90's.

 

Ken Norton, Prime George Foreman any many many more.

 

Ken Norton, Mike Weaver, Cleveland Williams, Jack Johnson, Primo Carnera, Steve Cunningham, Kell Brook, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Wladimir Klitschko, David Haye, Timothy Bradley, Shawn Porter, Marvin Hagler, Chris Eubank Sr.
There are so many to name, I’ve probably missed some out, but I tried to put the main ones in there.
This isn’t judged only by muscle mass otherwise Valuev would probably be near the top, it’s defined by leanness, definition and body shape (clavicle width, waist etc) and obviously muscle to an extent, but it’s not the be all and end all of the criteria.

 

This content is protected

 

I think most of those in contention for this title have already been named, but I was always impressed with Ruddock's physique. His upper body looked less chiseled, but a lot more powerful.
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/preview-440/3031697a/2f68922b/Shutterstock_3031697a.jpg