Jarrett Hurd is a big bad man!!! Biggest 154lber of all times!!!

Guillermo Jones at 154 was a blown-up-Welterweight, like many Panamanians he had a gracile lanky/rangy built. Not the typical West-Afro American robust built breed. For some reason the dominant lineage among Afro-Panamian is the Guillermo Jones type.

Guillermo Jones made Welterweight effortlessly, at 154 he was soaked & filled with food. If he was drained he can make 140...

At 15-0-0-0 (KO 13) Jones was a world ranked Welterweight, looking at a title shot vs Welterweight champion Ike Quartey, it would have been an impressive title fight... GOAT jab vs Rangiest Welterweight

Moving up to 154 (possibly ducking Ike Quartey) was a horrible idea, although Ike Quartey was at his prime at that time & KTFO opponents with his jab

 

LOL. I sure its a fact the human head continues to grow to age 23-26. but you got jokes.

 

LOL "Make dat mozzarella cheese for da belt" Priceless

 

Willie Nelson was the biggest 154 Ive even seen.

He legitimately looked like a LHW. He must have had zero muscle mass on his legs.

As for Hurd, hes not going to have that much of a size advantage in this fight.

Trout is known to get in the ring in the 170s, I cant see how Hurd could weigh much more than that on fight night.

Theres only so much you can put on

 

I got a lot of respect for hurd he was slangin sandwiches at the publix deli during the day and training boxing at night

 

Hurd will get outboxed until he catches Trout late and stops him. The guy has very good power at 154 you can't underestimate him.

 

I think the Harrison fight had more to do with Harrison's proven stamina woes and less with Hurd's "supreme" conditioning.

Hurd has talent no doubt, but War Trout.

 

Hurd is indeed a big boy and I am pretty sure he will move up to middleweight which will make that division more interesting, along with Lubin who is another big boy. The MW division is gonna get crowded with talent.

 

This is one of the most bizarre yet recurring discussions on boxing forums. Describing size as some abstract thing unrelated to actual physical size.

If someone is carrying excess weight then yes they might be naturally "small" for the division. However that's clearly not the case for most of these 154lb guys (Charlo, Trout, Hurd etc) who weigh approximately 170 lean. As someone else said, there's a physical limit on how much weight you can cut and put back on. Hurd is not the only 170ish guy who is cutting as much as he can to make 154. It's common.

It's a simple fact that Hurd isn't actually any "bigger" than guys who weigh exactly the same as he does while equally lean and in shape. If he appears to be "bigger" then maybe it's because he's taller and broader but has a leaner torso, skinnier legs etc. It's not physically possible to be actually bigger than someone but also the same size.

What people actually seem to be mad (yes, mad...weirdly) about is that you can have two guys who are the same natural weight but one has proportions that create an illusion of greater size (usually taller, broader shoulders, narrower waist, skinnier legs). It just seems ridiculous to me to get mad about two guys who carry their weight differently or to keep repeating that one is "bigger" when it's factually incorrect.

Sorry for the rant but this really annoys me. Like as if the "noted weight cutters" are the only guys who are cutting as much as they can from a lean physique and then putting it back on. That is the status quo.

 

And if you want to talk about Hurd specifically (and get a little gay with it), he quite clearly has a very narrow mid-section and tiny waist. That's where he is "saving" weight compared to his contemporaries. Someone like Canelo can be as lean as possible but his torso is just way thicker than someone like Hurd's and in that sense he is a naturally much bigger guy.