Why do so many younger generation of boxing fan think there were no taller heavyweights in the 90's?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by ThePainMan, Nov 24, 2019.


  1. ThePainMan

    ThePainMan Member banned Full Member

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    Lol this every heavyweight from the 90's were shorter and heavyweights only started getting taller in the last 5 or 10 years stuff is funny. It is funny in two ways. First off it is wrong. There have been tons of 6'4 plus heavyweights since the early 70s and nobody cared. Nobody acted like a 6'5 guy had any boxing advantage over a 6'2 guy. Second I can and will name you

    Mike White 6'10.
    Henry Akwinande 6'7
    Michael Grant 6'7
    Lance Whitaker 6'8
    Wladimir Klitschko 6'5 who was champ until recently
    Vitali Klitschko 6'7
    Tyrell Biggs 6'5
    Jorge Luis Gonzales 6'7
    Lou Savarase 6'5
    Jose Ribalta 6'5
    Alexander Zolkin 6'5
    Art Tucker 6'6
    Riddick Bowe 6'4 1/2
    Lennox Lewis 6'4 3/4
    Anders Ekland 6'6
    Corey Sanders 6'6

    Well it is late here and I am only up because my mom has a cold and I am checking on her. But anyway I could of continued to name tons of other 6'5 plus inch guys who were contenders and I could of named tons of 6'3 to 6'4 guys like George Foreman, Corrie Sanders, Tim Witherspoon, Larry Holmes, ect. Nobody even mentioned doing this time frame that being taller than 6'5 gave you advantage in boxing. This stuff just came up I would say in the last 5 years. These younger generation of guys probably heard Max Kellerman bring up taller heavyweights and ran with it.

    You want some more funny information? The 6'2 50 year old Luis Ortiz once fought Bert Cooper. The same Bert Cooper who turned pro in the 80s and George Foreman beat 23 years before hand. Wladimir Klitschko turned pro in the 90s. Was beaten by guys who turned pro in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's. Each of the guys who beat him in his prime were around 6'3 or less. Nobody seem shocked that he lost to a guy a few inches shorter than him.
     
  2. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    To quote the late great Manny Steward, I used to think these taller fighter lost coordination after 6'3" tall, not anymore. And then he built a style for these newly coordinated big men. Ever since the 1990 to today, ( late 2019 ) the #1 heavyweight has usually been 6'4" or taller. A guy 6'2" might have claimed the number one spot ( Holyfield, Morrer Rahman, McCall ) , but in the 29 year period, probably 25 years the champion was 6'4" or greater.

    Heavies over 6'5" were rare in the 1970's, and semi rare in the 1980's, at least the ones ranked in the top say 20. In the 1990s they became more common. Today you almost expect it, and a guy 6'2" tall the exception inside the top ten. 6 feet or shorter, almost out of the game inside the top 10.