Ishida as a Heavyweight picture

holyfield moves up 12 pounds to heavyweight and hes a "PED CHEAT"
this guy goes up 40 pounds and we hear nothing

 

:think

Kyotaro has looked worse. :yep

 

Ishida has the height to carry the weight..........

 

Ishida is so awesome

 

The article may have been biased, but they say he still has the same hand speed and tecnique he had at middle, and that he took some good shots.
His stamina wasn't really good, tough.

I'm really impressed, i expected him to take longer to reach that weight, but he's already there, and in a very good looking shape!

 

This guy looked weight drained at middle, and at hw he doesn't look as ripped as Field was.

 

It really is a weird and interesting story.

 

Holyfield wasn't called a ped cheat because he moved up to HW and did very well, he was call a ped cheat because he basically was found out to be a ped cheat.

 

:nono That was Evan Fields.

 

WTF? :twisted:

Those *******s, moving the goalposts.

So then why dangle the carrot and make him jump through hoops with the Fujinaka spar just to say no, that won't cut the mustard?

 

I'm almost mad enough to have mixed a fifth metaphor into that last post...

 

I remember reading an essay from someone visiting Japan that, culturally, they don't have fighters above middleweight and guys who are naturally bigger will drain down to middleweight to keep fighting there.

It's basically their version of heavyweight- the glamour division. That essay was written years ago, so there's a few more bigger weight fighters now than there was. That trend still looks to be holding up though. Taking a quick glance at boxrec, here's only 11 pro fighters in Japan above 160 combined, but 48 professional middleweights.

 

48? Hell, I only knew of like four. (Ishida, Sato, Fuchigami, and as of very recently Murata).

I kind of always thought 154 was the ceiling/glamor division. You have guys like Tokyo-based New Yorker Charlie Ota campaigning there for years; if the real money over there were at 160 why not jump up a few pounds? :huh