Huge Fighters For Their Weight Class

Nino Benvenuti was a massive Light-Middleweight and a big Middleweight although lacked a physicallity at Middleweight.

Current Super-featherweight champ Uchiyama, in his last fight he fouhgt a 6'3'' challenger.

 

Roy Jones at 154

 

Valuev

 

Not tall but very solid
Randy Turpin
Emille Griffith
Harold Johnson
Eduardo Lausse

 

Gerald McClellan used to walk into the ring at 180+ as a middleweight (and remain chiseled!).

 

I hate these internet myths.
Mclleland weighed in at 165 for the benn fight,3 pounds inside the limit.
Yes he was a bid middle,but he was probably average at 168. (benn was a small 168er.)
You got russell continually claiming g-man was a cruiser,and now this.
In boxing news g-man claimed he rehydrated to 174/76 when he was a middle. Now that makes him a decent size 168er,if you believe him.
Cruiser=190+ for those who cant do the math.

Finally,consider half of the time the 'in ring weights' include roughly 7 pounds of clothes,and sometimes 7 pounds of excess water from the UV re-hydration.
But people ignore this and claim these guys are 'huge' at the weight.
End of rant...

 

Kelly Pavlik was enormous for a middleweight. He rehydrated to 178 for the Martinez fight. His fight with Gary Lockett was bizarre looking for two guys in the same division.

Oscar was massive at lightweight, Pacquiao was a beast towards the end of his days at superfeatherweight (rehydrating to around 144-147).

And I always thought Iran Barkley looked huge when he fought at middle.

 

Genaro Hernandez

 

Jose Luiz Castillo was a huge Lightweight so was Howard Davis jr. at 5'11,Donald Curry is the most solid looking welter i've seen he looked like a middleweight.

 

Urango although not tall is a ****in huge JrWW

 

Hugo Pineda. He sucked but was clearly bigger than Trinidad at welter.

 

Vernon Forrest?

 

Mark Breland was about 6'3 and 147 pounds. The tallest welterweight I ever seen. Skinny as hell of course.

 

Shane Mosley & Jose Luis Castillo @ 135.

Not necessarily the tallest & rangiest (more so for Castillo), but their frames were just huge for LW.

Vinny Pazienza had a very big, stocky frame @ 135 also.

Likewise for Arturo Gatti @ 130.

 

sean O'grady looked like a welter compared to jim watt when he fought for watts world lightweight title