Tallest + Shortest

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  1. Fat Joe

    Fat Joe Let's have it right Full Member

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    Who's the tallest and shortest top fighters you can think of?

    I mean relative to their division.

    I'll start with a few obvious ones - Valuev + Paul Williams.
     
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    Am I supposed to see an optical illusion when I look at your avatar?

    I see a boy with his face torn out.
     
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  3. Fat Joe

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    Heavyweight shortest is maybe Dwight Muhammad Qawi???? I know he wasn't known as a heavy, but he did fight there, and was only about 5 foot 6ish.
     
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    :rofl That's about the height of Hatton
     
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    Yeah he's small, but a great fighter at light heavy and cruiser.
     
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    Didn't Guierrmo Jones fight at welter at some point in his career? He's like 6ft 4.
     
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    Joe Walcott was a 5'1" welterweight. Can you imagine him against Mark Breland?
     
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  9. Fat Joe

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    Isn't he the guy Holyfield fought?
     
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    Vernon Forrest is pretty tall for his division isn't he?
     
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    Yeah, fought him twice with the first going to Holyfield via SD. Second was a fourth round KO for Holyfield.

    He also lost a close UD to Michael Spinks at light heavyweight.

    At heavyweight he beat Leon Spinks, and was stopped by George Foreman.
     
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    Celestino Caballero is 5'11 and he fights at Jr. Featherweight. What a freak of nature.
     
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    How tall was Alexis Arguello??? He was about 5'10 or something, and fought at featherweight.
     
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    Didn't Corrales start at that weight?
     
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    Arguello is listed at 5'10, so he can't be that far off i'm assuming and I am pretty sure Diego Corrales did not start at 122lbs. I think the lightest he ever came in was at about 128lbs which is still ridiculous to me.
     
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