Great boxers with significant size advantages over their contemporary opponents(all weight classes)?

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  1. NoNeck

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    Both Klitschkos benefitted greatly from having a significant size advantage over their opponents. When Wlad's size differential was diminished (Sanders, Joshua, Brewster, Puritty) his results showed a marked decline.
     
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  3. BitPlayerVesti

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    Peter Jackson wasn't really much bigger (if at all), than his main rivals in Goddard, Sullivan, Corbett and Slavin.
     
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  4. The Fighting Yoda

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    I've compared him to Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe. (as kind of an great ancient super heavyweight). Of course, there were other big or tall guys that faced Lewis/Bowe like Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Shannon Briggs, Andrzej GoĊ‚ota, Henry Akinwande, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Michael Grant, Vitali Klitschko etc...
    I checked out Peter Jackson's opponents once.
    If I remember correctly, there was (nearly) no one who was taller or with a better reach.
     
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