Why does size matter?

Ike was naturally a thickset guy, so I think it's a little unrealistic to expect him to have been able to boil down healthily to the 200lbs mark. Maybe I'm wrong, though. It's just a hunch based on his bone structure and general breadth of shoulder and depth of chest. Then again Shavers was the same height, and was able to fight effectively at a fleshy 210, so it wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility.

 

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Btw, the 122-lb version of Morales might beat a green Ryan Garcia but nobody would question whether size would “matter.” It obviously would.

 

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Foreman was not a natural 217 pounder at all, the guy weighed 227-230 at 18-19 in the amateurs. Of course a couple of pounds less would help him in longer pro fights ,george had a huge frame it is why he could carry 250 pounds pretty well in his 40s with a good stamina. Bowe at 21 in the amateurs weighed 216 and lewis 220 at age of 23.
guys that were bigger than their weights suggested for example jack dempsey and joe louis had a big frame, i am.pretty sure that dempsey could carry 220 pounds easily, Michael spinks was naturally bigger than a 175 pounder, michael moorer was a natural cruiser not a lhw, the bones are the key, for example david haye and holyfield were naturally "small".. If you compare a 218 pounder version evander with a 218 version of foreman you can see clearly in the frame who is the bigger man... One of them had the musculature of a bodybuilder to make 218 and the other one (foreman)did not touch a weight but his bones were big and heavy. The same thing with haye... Compare his legs with Ali's .Ali was a natural big man a natural heavyweight and the other one was a manufactured hw. Tommy morrison for example in his early career weighed around 211-214. His 227 pounds were the result of (weights) and probably roids, he was smaller than foreman. The 90s was a era where the boxers did increment their weights training in a gym but they were not any bigger than the hws from the 70s or 80s.
Tyson made the 201 limit in the amateurs in the late 1984 without problems then he in 1985 added extra pounds of mass as pro fighter in order to face taller heavier guys. Tyson was not bigger than joe frazier at all, simply he adapted himself to his era