Lol So I read today that legend Larry Holmes, stated that there should be a size limit on the heavyweight division. He doesn't know what we're eating over here but it's making us grow.! The limit should be 6ft 5 max. Obviously Larry was talking in jest here, tho some will take him seriously. It could never work... Could it?!
Wonder how many HW champions there are who are over 6ft5 and never lost to someone under that height. Probably Fury? Wasn’t Cunningham a former CW and 6ft3ish? The guy who dropped him.
Maybe Holmes has a point. Boxing has always been about matching the similar sized men, except at heavyweight and frankly the ones of the 1960-1900's weren't very good big guys. In modern times they are and today all the ring magazines ranked contenders are over 220 pounds and the next batch of up and coming contenders are huge men. Some of them are over 6'5" or taller. Not just two or three of the mind you, but 10, or more A super heavyweight with skill is very hard to defeat on points, Look at Bowe, Lewis, Klitschko, Klitschko, and Fury. The elite brand. They fought a combined 200+ times. Ah, but how many matches did they lose in their prime on points? Just once in the past 30 years and it was a razor thin win. Anyone can be knocked out in boxing but these giant athletic men have tremendous reach at height , reach, and weight advantages over the garden variety 6 foot, 190-210 pound 75" reach or less men. As out fighters and clinchers ( sorry its still part of boxing to a degree ) they do. If they also have good footwork and some stamina the garden variety has the punchers chance and almost none. At first I was against the idea of the " bridge weight " division. Can we at least call it something cooler? But after some consideration it makes sense. The could be lots of great fights we are missing. Boxing tried to kick Primo Carnera out, calling for a super dreadnaught division but history's shows he wasn't that good.
Larry was probably talking that should be the upper limit, not the lower limit. Larry himself was only 6.3
Would be a lot more fair in some ways. Like cruiser to give lightheavy s a chance to move up and still be competive.
I think the "Heavyweight" champ should be pound for pound the best fighter in a REAL fight. If Tyson Fury happens to be the best fighter in the world because he happens to be a giant, so be it.
The thought of Marciano V Lewis makes me shudder. Sorry, but as tough and big hearted as he was, it would be a barbaric beating for the Rock. I don't think he'd see past 5 tbh.
