The myth of superheavyweight dominance

You don't know **** about me or my boxing experience so stfu you glass jawed girl

 

Anyone who says size isn't an advantage should try sparring or fighting with people bigger than them. Even something as little as 10-20lbs makes a massive difference in punching power and strength even though it doesn't sound like a lot. Well thats what i have found anyway.

 

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Embarrassing.

 

That tells me all I need to know tough guy :rofl

 

Something tells me you don't apply this same nonsensical criteria when talking of Sonny Liston. Would I be right in that?

 

To get a real indication of whether size means much at heavyweight it would make sense to take every fight in a certain length of time (a decade, 2 decades, more?) and find out how often the taller fighter won. I'd expect the taller fighters to have the better win ratio. If height makes no difference or is a bad thing then the smaller fighters should win 50% or more of the time

Out of how many fights? Also he didn't get KO'd, he was TKO'd in those fights

 

Has it never occurred to you that both Klitschko chose to fight to their strengths, ie fight tall? Who knows, maybe you along with Tyson Fury are right all along, perhaps both Klitschko's should throw their successful textbook style out the window and adopt the British Tyson Fury style of fighting, ie be 6'9 and fight as if your 5'9.

 

The only people that believe height and size are a factor when deciding greatness are Klitschko fans, and most of them are ******ed at best. Why even start a thread about it?

 

Don't even need to go that far back, or even use great fighters as examples. Think Guinn-Grant, Haye-Harrison and Adamek-Golota. Less than great fighters taking apart world-ranked opponents 30-40lbs heavier.

Height and weight are obviously factors, but are much less relevant if the heavier guy just isn't that good. The Klitschkos apart, the vast majority of the superheavies in recent years fall into that category.

 

I could give examples of bigger guys beating smaller guys

Wlad-Byrd
Bowe-Holyfield
Lewis-Tua
Valuev-Barrett
Vitali-Hide

Individual fights don't mean anything. I bet statistically the taller heavyweight is more likely to win a fight. If that's the case then 'height means nothing' is shown to be bull****

 

I suppose you could disregard all fights where the guys were within 2 inches of each other in height if you wanted. I doubt it will make a difference