What do you consider a "big man"?

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  1. Unforgiven

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    Yeah. They are big in that sense.
     
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    :good

    I saw that film for the first time only a month or two ago.
    Great fight scene.
    Nice little British film.
     
  3. Unforgiven

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    Max Baer is a good example.
    Not heavily muscled but he was a huge frame.
     
  4. foreman&dempsey

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    Yes ,for example a guy like ruddock was 188 pounds early in his career,then he trained hard in the gym and got 228 solid pounds,but he never ever was naturally like baer or foreman , morrison was another guy made in a gym
     
  5. Vanboxingfan

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    I always considered Ali a big man and he was 6'3.

    Liston was shorter at 6'1 or so and he was a big man given his reach, hand circumference, etc. I remember years ago when I was on the AOL boxing forum. There was this one poster who always espoused how big strong and powerful Liston was. "Could knock you out with a jab...a jab. Fists the size of a ham.." lol That was a fun forum, meet lots of knowledge posters there, including the Iceman, John Skully, who was working on a book at the time, use to send me chapters to read which often involved the guts it took to walk from the dressing room into the ring.