Do boxers lie about their height?

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  1. aramini

    aramini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    They are tiny guys. I am about 5'7.5 so I usually round up to 5'8'' and Floyd is pretty much eye to eye with me the few times I talked to him, and very thin framed. I would say he is probably the second or third smallest guy in a room depending on where you are, but definitely little. Those guys are my size.

    Here's me and Zab
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    For a size comparison, here's me next to my somewhat goofy 6'3'' or 6'4'' friend. Tall people would dwarf Floyd badly.
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  2. aramini

    aramini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Some of these guys look shorter because of their small/lean frames. People swear Floyd is shorter than 5'8'' but he really isn't. He just has a really small build and it looks tiny in real life. I don't think Pac is really 4 inches smaller than Floyd.

    Bryan Viloria is a legit 5'4''.
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  3. Staminakills

    Staminakills Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    if you're 5'11" you're much taller than almost every current ww

    Floyd is a real 5'7" that is a fact my friends.
    pac is a real 5'6"

    Trip G is a real 5'9.5"
    Tyson, I've never talked to face to face but I've heard and believe he is really 5'9" , at most 5'10"

    fighters teams but in their heath, measurements but the networks take their own measurements and list what they feel like really.

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    listed height from the networks is almost always within an inch or so of their real height
     
  4. Bobthepen

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    I've been nose to nose with Brook, and I'm 5'10, and I dwarfed him.
     
  5. Boxing Prospect

    Boxing Prospect Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I remember Adrian Hernandez being listed at 5'8" but when he fought Inoue the JBC, who measure everyone for their medicals, dropped him about 3"...
     
  6. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    5'11 and hard to believe your taller than those guys. :D why.
    They arent big at all. Golovkin is 5'10-5'11 he would dwarf the WWs/
     
  7. aramini

    aramini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think Floyd is at the taller end of 5'7'', closer to 5'8'' but not over 5'8''. He always seemed just that miniscule hair taller than me when I saw him at the gym, and I always round up. He would dwarf Viloria badly, and Andre Ward would be enormously bigger in every conceivable way, in thickness and in height. I can't find my Ward picture, but the guy is so much bigger than Zab, Floyd and me that it isn't even funny. I would never mess with him on the basis of size even if I didn't know who he was, but I wouldn't be afraid of Zab or Floyd if I didn't know anything about them.
     
  8. aramini

    aramini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tyson's a bit taller than 5'7''. One of my ex girlfriends dated him after me (thank God it wasn't before) and he's a lot bigger than me, but very short for a heavyweight.
     
  9. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Every body rounds up and boxers are no different.
     
  10. Zimornsky

    Zimornsky King Fluid IV = CHEAT banned

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    Floyd will DWARF Pac if they ever meet in the ring.
     
  11. Barrera

    Barrera Defeated Boxing_master Full Member

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    lol shoulda called tyson an asked him how your **** tasted, id happily rock up to your funeral and state you had ***** of steel
     
  12. duffy_89

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    Haye tells afew porkies when it comes to his height, so does Khan
     
  13. aramini

    aramini Boxing Addict Full Member

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    heh heh death wish.

    I did have the most awkward conversation on the phone with her though. "Hey, you want to meet Mike in private? It would be okay. He would like you. He would like you a lot." At about this point I was like ... huh. There's a lot of ways that could go and most of them don't turn out so good for me. "I think I'm okay, thanks."

    I did say to her that a lot of girls think that their new boyfriends can always beat all their old boyfriends in a fight, and this time she was right.
     
  14. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, either them or their promoters.

    Check out 'celebheight' for a lot of boxers' true heights.
     
  15. Barrera

    Barrera Defeated Boxing_master Full Member

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    lol killer story bro :good