Heavyweight rating in each size class Big,Med,Small-top 10

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  1. frank

    frank Active Member Full Member

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    I think it should be based on height since all our heavyweights and being 300lb does not make you hit harder than 210lb shavers.I think the extra weight can tire you out and slow you down.Just my 2 cents, i feel in a real world (close quartered) fight,like in a bar,the shorter sluggers have an even greater chance of kicking butt,eat the jab once,get inside,wrestle and punch.In boxing, they can't wrestle and they separate the fighters making the shorter guy have to work again and again to get inside,plus the space of the ring.I feel Tyson,Frazier, Marciano,Langford and Tua would have killed the tall klitchos,tyson furys and lennox lewis's of the world in a bar room sized fight.
     
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  2. frank

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    Tyson (SAME HEIGHT 5'9 1/4")with Murphy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQvol8L45WE
     
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  4. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Very interesting but we do not know about shoe heel size etc. but let face it at 5"9.5 and with a 70 inch reach it was never the size of an opponents body,weight or arms that beat Tyson....It was there Heart, Holyfield, Douglas (In the one fight he really wanted to win ) the big guys that Tyson smashed through either held on for life or got smashed and I think had Cus been around to help Mike stay fit mentally & physically he would have overcame ....In all fairness Mike at a young age had more demons to fight than most
     
    Bummy Davis, Dec 20, 2013
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  5. frank

    frank Active Member Full Member

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    that's why i post the true height,so short guys know they can achieve as well as the taller ones.
     
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  6. kolcade4

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    One of the more intriguing list threads I have seen on the boards.
     
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  7. kolcade4

    kolcade4 Keep Punchin' Full Member

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    I'm surprised Quarry hasn't made anyone's . Probably due to lack of a title.
     
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  8. Bummy Davis

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    good point, Quarry was a giant killer and beat many of the prime Giants pretty dominantly, unfortunately he shared an era with Frazier and Ali
     
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  9. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    Big

    1 Lennox Lewis
    2 vitali
    3 Vladimir
    4 buster Douglas
    5 Riddick Bowe
    6 primo Carnera
    7 Terrell
    8 Tony Tucker
    9 Shannon Briggs
    10 Greg Page
    11 Corrie Sanders
    13 Bonecrusher SMith
    14 Frank Bruno
    15 Carl truth Williams

    MEDIUM

    1. Joe Louis
    2. Muhammad ALi
    3 Larry Holmes
    4 Jack Johnson
    5 George Foreman
    6 Max Baer
    7 Jim Jeffries
    8 Sonny Liston
    9 Ingo Johansson
    10 Jack Sharkey
    11 Ken Norton
    12 Jim Braddock
    13 Harry Wills
    14 Oliver McCall
    15 Tim Witherspoon
    16 Mike Weaver
    17 Hasim Rahman

    SMALL

    Rocky Marciano
    2 Jack Dempsey
    3 Evander Holyfeild
    4 Mike Tyson
    5 Joe Frazier
    6 Max Schmelling
    7 Floyd Patterson
    8 Ezzard Charles
    9 Joe Walcott
    10 Sam Langford
    11 Gene Tunney
    12 Tommy Burns
    13 Archie Moore
    14 Jimmy ellis
    15 Tommy Laughran
    16 Micheal Spinks
    17 Jimmy Bivins
    18 Joey maxim
    19 Michael moorer
    20 Leon Spinks
     
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  10. fists of fury

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    Yeah, I don't believe Tyson was 5'11" as listed. Dundee, who was 5'8", said that Tyson was just a tad taller than he was when they stood next to each other.

    5'9" or maybe at a stretch 5'10" I'd say.
     
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  11. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    interesting
     
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