What former middleweight champion could of went up to lighheavy and heavyweight

jake lamotta would have beat joey maxim for the light heavy crown as he beat several notable light heavies in his day, and was a natural super middle/light heavy as he always had trouble getting to the 160 lb limit for middle.

 

If Frazier could walk through Foster's punches how will Monzon's have any effect.

 

Its the unsubstantiated assertions that really get you isnt it Russ?


Only joking!

 

...i'm not so sure lamotta would beat joey maxim. maxim tangled with a lot of heavyweights and actually came down from that division to win he light heavy crown. he had a great chin...kayoed once in his career when the murderous punching hatchetman shepard caught him cold inthe first round. maxim came back to outpoint him i a few weeks later. he was hard to knockdown and virtually impossible to knock out. his physical strength was underrated because his boxing skill was so obvious.
lamota didn't have the punching power to stop him.

on the other hand maxim was a very light puncher. maybe jake could get inside and bull him around and start those punches in bunches he did so well,and, as stated , he wouldn't be weakend by making weight. he did fight some heavies though, but none of the quality that maxim tangled with.

i see it as a great fantasy fight, one to mull around in our minds and making good arguments for both. as for me, i'm inclined to go with maxim, but not as a sure thing.

 

Jimmy Ellis.

He just didn't benefit from a world of 4 titles is all. That changes a lot of things. Ellis could go and do like recent guys and fight the easiest champ at a given weight as opposed to the tough hombres holding titles when he was at those weights. And that tough level of opposition Jimmy fought at those weights. And Angie Dundee could get his guy ready for a mr softie type titleholder.