What weight do you need to be to beat a top super heavyweight with skills?

either side of 6'6" and 225lbs plus...

it's not a weight issue, it's Height and Reach, very, very few (Super) Heavyweights today under 6'4"

 

Its not so much about weight as it is skill/style and you have to have a punch thats not even debatable for anyone venturing below 210 . Super Heavyweight would also figure about 225...so thats your answer in a trick question of what weight you need to be to be a top SHW. A fighter of 200/215 may get a few top wins like byrd who was a really good fighter ,but the bigger SHW's have wins over him...imop Golota too. Byrd wouldnt be a top SHw bc he wasnt as big as one. Povetkin would.

 

A guy wih great technique and blistering power like Joe Louis (~210lb or less) could KO anybody. Likewise Dempsey at 195 could put a dent in anybody's day if he landed. I laugh at Willard a lot, but if there's one thing that SOB was, is tough. And Dempsey wrecked him. I rate Marciano at 185 lb as heavy handed even for today's heavies.

That all said, I think for a guy to be favoured over an elite super heavy, you're probably looking at 220lb roughly. And then we're talking a stringbean type fellow.

The reason is simply that he needs a long enough reach to be able to compete to some extent in the jabbing and in getting his shots off before getting tied up. Either that or he has to be incredibly explosive or have godly footwork and body movement to get inside without getting shoeshined by the jab.

My 2c

 

So "skilled super heavyweight" is just 4-6 people right?

Lewis
Bowe
Klitschkos
Joshua and Fury too?
So 6 people?

So you're asking which 190-210 beat one of these 6? I think nobody besides Holyfield.

Can a smaller HW beat one of them? Sure.

 

Oh, for fck sakes would you give the Klitschkos a break for a single post?

This is an interesting thread without you derailing it as per usual.

We don't need another tko6 thread.

Thanks.

 

You utter idiot, I am replying to a post about vitali. What kind of stupid twit are you to say stop me replying? if you want to moan, moan at Mendoza for bringing kltishko into it, you tit!

let the man answer himself, and you know full well my last set of posts were rpelies to someone else writing about klitschko so you just flopped.

 

Who is in Lewis, Bowes, and Klitschkos class?

You basically barred everyone else out from the discussion.

Your sample isn't "skilled SHWs".
It's "Legendary SHWs"

 

How on earth are the Klitschko's in the same class as Lewis , Bowe and Fury?? Because they're the same size ? lolol

Take Felix Sturm and blow him up to the size of a SHW , thats your Wladimir Klitschko.

Are you going to tell me Sturm was in the same class as Hagler ?

 

I asked the same question.
He's mentioned three boxers and then listed who beat them.

On top of that, he concluded 225 and 238 pound men can knock out 250 pounders.

That's the entirety of his study.

 

What history tells me is that once you get into the high 180s in terms of lbs., you start to see the kind of firepower that gives the smaller man a chance.

 

Well, not sure if this answers any questions but muhammad Ali's weight if he was to face the bigger, heavier wlad klitschko. Because ali would defeat him imo and possibly out point him.

 

you're not replying then, ok.

bit weak mate, usually you at least offer a buffoon argument. but this time you are so beat even thats not an option.