How many HW champions meet U.S. Army weight requirements?

So we agree.

A fighter either cuts weight as a means to an end in much the way a jocky might in horse racing.

A fighter can also artificially enhance his weight (as a means to an end) in much the way a Sumo wrestler might (as a means to an end) within his own feild.

 

saying a HW boxer is no more like a sumo wrestler than a lightweight who wants to box at welterweight isn't saying that "the lightweight wants to outweigh the welter" which is the intention of the heavyweight against another heavyweight.

No doubt Sumo Wrestlers carry more artificial weight than boxers, but it is deliberate artificial weight used as a tool all the same.

It does not make them any less of a great fighter but the weight itself is significant enough for it to be tactically developed in the first place.

We both know that the weight fluctuations of heavyweights within their own careers can be a lot more than 20 pounds. So how can we put a percentage on the artificial weight of the individual WITHOUT using something like the U.S weight requirements system?.

 

Regardless of all Sumo (or HW boxer's) wanting to outweigh the opposition, the admission of the additional pounds purely to "out bulk" the opposition (on occasion or not) is still the same tactic as the Sumo?

I dont discredit the super heavyweights like Wlad and Lewis because they were the best of their era. I'm just saying we both agree heavyweights fall far less into the U.S military height to weight system than they used to under more traditional boxing training methods because of deliberately striving towards being even bigger.

 

I think we agree on the widespread deliberate bulking up to gain artificial weight. I also presume we agree that the methods to achieve this was not possible in the past.

 

Obviously Lennox was not unhealthy. He was a terrific champion. Very strong h2h. but due the training practice of his era whereby methods began to utilize and compliment taller boxer's (like never before) he was therefore a product of his environment.

By comparison to traditional training methods, because of changes to them,,there is no doubt Lennox was as overdeveloped as the rest of the fighters of his Times. He was the best among them.

The U.S military Weight requirements "per inch of height" system was obviously researched enough to produce cut off points at the right end of each spectrum of what is the natural acceptable potential of the human population.

Don't you think that the evidence of most professional fighters being within these limits for many, many years backs this up?

Are they wrong?