How tall should a heavyweight boxer be?

Nikolai Valuev says hello

 

Today? 6-5 or 6-6... 10 years ago 6-5 20 years ago 6-4 and it goes lower and lower as you go back in time.

 

Lol Wlad was in his 20's and had over 40 bouts. Yeah he wasn't in his prime. If you want to use that logic then George Foreman wasn't in his prime against Ali. The point is casual Wlad turned pro in the 90's and was listed at 6'5. Nobody considered him a super heavyweight. Nobody considered Vitali a super heavyweight. Nobody considered the 6'8 Michael Grant and Lance Whitaker super heavyweights. Nobody considered the 6'10 300 pound Mike White a super heavyweight. Lol Fury didn't win against Wilder. He lost. He also only landed 86 punches in 12 rounds. Lamon Brewster is 6'1 to 6'2 and stopped a 28 year old Wlad. The 6'3 37 year old Corrie Sanders knocked the tar out of 27 year old Wlad. The 6'2 Ross Purrity knocked out a 22 year old Wlad. Maybe you should start a new forum where only casual fans like you can go.

Nobody in the 70s, 80s, 90s or even early 2000s referred to being 6'4 or taller or super heavyweight. Nobody back then thought being 6'5 meant a guy who was 6'3 couldn't beat you. That is just stuff casual fans like you heard some person on TV say so you repeat it. Also Anthony Joshua got knocked out as a 20 plus year amateur by a 5'11-6'0 Russian fighter. the 6'6 bean pole Deontay Wilder also got beat and knocked down by a 6'0 tall Russian fighter. Anthony Joshua struggled like hell with the slightly above 6'2 Joseph Parker. Club fighter Tyson Fury almost got knocked out by the 6'3 natural 190 pound cruiser weight Steve Cunnigham with one punch. On that note casual fan, I will dismiss anything you type until you learn more about boxing. Typing to you is beneath me.

 

To make a realistic run at a belt: between 6'3 and 6'5. Unless you're Mike Tysonesque, you will not grab a belt and be 5'11-6'1ish.

 

Funny since you actually stated that Alexandre Povetkin a guy who is 6'1 was one of the top fighters of this era in this time. The best heavyweights will always be beteen 6'2 and 6'5/6'6. The biggest you get the slower you get. A really good 6'2 220 pound fighter will beat a really good 6'6 250 pound fighter 9 times out of 10.

 

This.

 

It was Wlad's first fight with Steward. Eventually he perfected his style and didn't loose until he was 40.

 

Let me gues you are not so tall yourself and thats why you bother so much.
Man like i dont give a fuk. Just go to your local boxing gym and have a few fights and you wouldnt write so much bs.
Wilder and aj where only a few years into boxing when they lost. Bhops prime was also way past his 20s and the fury shot was a luck one.
Last but not least boxing in the 70-90 was kindergarten compared to nowadays.

 

6'5 is the perfect height imo. All the more reason i see Lennox Lewis as one of the supreme heavyweights of all time along with Ali. Great power, good pure boxing, great agression, decently large sized Superheavyweight. He was the full package.

 

Over 6 feet tall is he wants to get a lot of online dating matches.
Otherwise, he should use whatever height he is effectively. If' he's short learn to fight short. If he's tall learn to fight tall. Size is a general advantage, but there's so many other factors that you can't make a blanket statement that a boxer should be a certain height

 

<6': Generally not viable
6'0"-6'3": Viable but do have a disadvantage. Plenty of boxers make it work.
6'4"-6'7": Probably ideal
>6'7": Most boxers tend to become clumsy and uncoordinated at these extreme heights (Valuev, David Price, Taishan Dong), but then some are totally fine like Tyson Fury and have an extreme advantage even. Probably the coordinated super-talls just go to the NBA and that's why only the clumsy, unathletic ones wind up in boxing.

Worth noting wingspan can muck some of this up. If you're 6'3" but have a 7' wingspan like Bryant Jennings, that changes things.

 

“Now introducing the minimum weight champion of the world...Slenderman!”

Six foot two, hundred five pounds. He’d look like a broomstick handle with legs. Like the deformed offspring of an experiment gone horribly wrong in every single measurable metric. The creation of a wild eyed, grey haired “Doc” Brown type scientist in a sixties propaganda piece about marijuana.

 

atleast alot.

 

The super heavyweight division was introduced to the Olympics in '84. And nutrition since the 80s has been a big part of how much bigger average humans are world wide. U.S. men have been caught and surpassed. So the talent pool worldwide for the Super Heavies has also grown, whether or not Basketball is a major attraction ( - it is).

Since the Olympic Super Heavy Weight class of '88 came of age, modern Super Heavyweights have ruled the roost:
Bowe and Lewis (shout out to Holyfield 1-2-1 [1-3-0 cough cough])
The Klitschko Brothers
Fury, Wilder and Joshua

Unless there is some global catastrophe that causes a worldwide nutritional deficit the age of the Super Heavies is here to stay. Though the money will always be an attraction to cause shorter fighters to pack on the pounds, and to test themselves at the top level. I think it is clear that you are not going to stay on top of the division for very long unless you are 6'4 plus.

I am open to being wrong about this. But we need to see Usyk against Joshua, before Usyk gets too old, and should be extremely frustrated that the WBO haven't forced the mandatory in over 3 years.