Short fighters are more intimidating than tall fighters

Brave to fight those intimidating taller guys, who they have to look up against. While these big guys just try to bully the short, less intimidating dude.

 

Reputation. He was afraid of Tucker (6' 5") as well... even more it seems, dropping his belt instead of fighting him.
Whatever you say, it all comes down to size is more intimidating.

Put up a poll if you dare.

 

Just like to think you treat all PED cheats the same....

 

Thats size as in thick build muscle not height. He was talking short strong thick dudes are more intimidating than a lanky skinny guy with no punch. Muscle mass intimidates in real life not the height of some tall streak with a skinny weak build.

 

This thread is about short fighters. Do you think fighters are more intimidated by opponents who are shorter than them? I doubt it. Height and reach is an advantage in boxing. Away from boxing, in real life are you more intimidated by guys who are shorter than you? I'm certainly not.

 

For heavyweights this seems unlikely: a tall bulky man will have an advantage against small bulky man. But, with every other weight division there could be some truth. There is something disquieting about short but thick-set fighters. They seem more likely to be a relentless, tough, and dirty - rising head butts and low blows - angry, and willing and able to take a punch to hit back harder.

As anyone who has ever been to a proper nasty pub knows, the people you fear are the midget skin-heads with mad staring eyes - you get the feeling they wake up angry about not being able to reach the top shelves at the supermarket. I have deliberately lost many a game of pool against people with a resemblancve to Gavin Rees!

Moose (6'3", 57kg)

 

I love to read this ****. As if everyone believing the same thing makes it fact.

 

Yes, it demonstrably is an advantage. If it weren't, we'd see hw champions who were below average height. That has NEVER happened, at least in living memory. Even Mike Tyson, who we think of as tiny by comparison, was still technically taller than the average man.

However, height as an advantage can be mitigated or even counteracted by other assets a fighter may have.

 

Aren't you a modernist, ie, someone who believes boxing has made progress over the years? Arguably the #1 piece of evidence in that argument is the dramatic increase of height among champs and top contenders over the years. Do you believe that hws have progressed but that the height growth is irrelevant? Very interesting dichotomy, if so.