Now that Usyk, who's a similar if not smaller size than prime Ali, ended the myth of the giant HWs

Lets see with Itaumu... kid looks like the real deal and has all the time in the world.

 

Would love to see it...Smaller heavyweights bring more skill, speed, movement. I can't stand these big oafs...

 

Ali was around 210lb

 

I will hold my hands up on this. I was one of the one's charting the increasing size of the top fighters in the heavyweight division over the decades. I am quite happy to have been able to watch Usyk clearly demonstrate my data to be incomplete and my hypothesis wrong about the size of the champion that would likely come out on top.

This content is protected

I should really update this now some more years have passed.

 

Nothing will change. There are always going to be skilled smaller guys, and lumbering oafs.

 

I mean, I don't think so because people use what they have. Small guys will always try to be faster and more skilled, and there are always going to be the big lumbering goofballs.

This never was a super-heavy's game exclusively. In the 90s, you had Bowe and Lewis on one side, and Tyson and Holy on the other. Wladdy's main rivals were Povetkin, Sultan, Chang and Haye. There has always been room for everyone.

 

Were Vlad, Vitali, and Lennox not "actually skilled" to you? Is Fury not skilled?

Here's something to consider: Usyk is better than Ali.

 

The big guys lack the coordination, agility and quickness of guys like usyk and Ali. Ali is still my goat, I think he beats Lewis, the Klitschkos and Fury, AJ. Usyk could go either way.

 

hes not, though. the more you understand boxing, the clearer that becomes for you. thats why trainers deserve 10% of a purse. because its their job to see those differences in their fighter and his opponents. to know what your fighter is ready for because you understand the skill level and talent you are working with and against.