Perfect Height for these weight divisions? What's your opinions? HW LHW SMW MW welter

[chloelloyd]

Heavyweight: 6'3
Despite the last two great HW champions Wladimir and Lennox both being
6'5-6'6, I actually think the perfect height will be someone like David Haye,
6'3. I think at 6'3 you are big enough to not be dominated by a lot of the super heavys, but also not too big in that you can maintain your speed along with agility.


Light Heavy Weight: 6'1.

SMW: 6'2
Lucian Bute imo got the perfect height and size. Sadly he lacked in a lot of other areas. Andre Ward imo is a bit on the small size for SMW.


MW: 6'1
Jermain Taylor, Bernard Hopkins height seem perfect.


Welterweight: 6'1
This is the one division in which I think a very tall, aggressive fighter with great boxing skills will be better then a average sized or smaller one.
Being a 6'1-6'2 fighter like Hearns at the WW Division is devastating. At WW you can still be fast and agile at 6'0+


140 Division: 5'9
Danny Garcia's 5'9 seem perfect

[RichCCFC]

Why Light heavy shorter than SMW?

[-Kev-]

Originally Posted by RichCCFC

Why Light heavy shorter than SMW?

Yeah man, I was gonna ask the same thing.

Super Featherweight: 5' 7"
Feathwerweight: 5' 9"

[-Kev-]

WW: 6' 1", LW 5' 9", Are you serious? Garcia is not even a LW.

SFW-JWW: 5' 6"- 5' 8"

WW: 5' 8"- 5' 10"

JMW: 5' 9"- 5' 11"

MW: 5' 10"- 6'

SMW-LHW: 6' - 6' 2"

CW-HW: 6' 3" plus.

Despite all of these weight classes, we've had a bunch of fighters show us otherwise. Like Tyson 5' 11" at HW, Corrales 5' 11" at 130, Jones 5' 11" 154-HW. It's almost as if 5' 11" is the best height for boxing no matter what weight class, as long as you are really good.

[chloelloyd]

Originally Posted by RichCCFC

Why Light heavy shorter than SMW?

Oh that is just my opinion. I'm most likely wrong in this, but I saw that a lot of SMW'S at 168 could carry the weight much easier then tall light heavyweights at 175+. Michael Spinks is arguably the greatest LHW of all times at 6'3 and for a lot of fights he was coming in at 171 because he had to cut weight prior to the fights since he was so tall and walked around at a much heavier weight than most of his peers at the LHW Division.

I just want opinions on what other people think is the perfect height for certain weight divisions. I'm especially interested in what people think about

6'3 Heavyweights
and
6'0+ WelterWeights and how much success such a tall welterweight can have.



It's just like I think a 6'0 Welterweight can still maintain a lot of his agility and his speed. But I feel like a 6'8 HW (other then Prime Vitali) will seriously be ****ed in terms of balance, speed, agility, etc.

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[chloelloyd]

Originally Posted by -Kev-

WW: 6' 1", LW 5' 9", Are you serious? Garcia is not even a LW.

SFW-JWW: 5' 6"- 5' 8"

WW: 5' 8"- 5' 10"

JMW: 5' 9"- 5' 11"

MW: 5' 10"- 6'

SMW-LHW: 6' - 6' 2"

CW-HW: 6' 3" plus.

Despite all of these weight classes, we've had a bunch of fighters show us otherwise. Like Tyson 5' 11" at HW, Corrales 5' 11" at 130, Jones 5' 11" 154-HW. It's almost as if 5' 11" is the best height for boxing no matter what weight class, as long as you are really good.

Hmm 5'11. Very interesting point.

[ИATAS]

bantamweight - 6'7
Flyweight - 6'5

[AntonTheMeh]

Originally Posted by -Kev-

WW: 6' 1", LW 5' 9", Are you serious? Garcia is not even a LW.

SFW-JWW: 5' 6"- 5' 8"

WW: 5' 8"- 5' 10"

JMW: 5' 9"- 5' 11"

MW: 5' 10"- 6'

SMW-LHW: 6' - 6' 2"

CW-HW: 6' 3" plus.

Despite all of these weight classes, we've had a bunch of fighters show us otherwise. Like Tyson 5' 11" at HW, Corrales 5' 11" at 130, Jones 5' 11" 154-HW. It's almost as if 5' 11" is the best height for boxing no matter what weight class, as long as you are really good.

and alot of other people. ray robinson(listed 5-11, some have said 6'0), jack dempsey(6'0), jack johnson 6'0) james jeffries (6'0)

that's an interesting coincidence.

[BlackHat]

WW should be around 5'10 to 5'11, the perfect example would be ODLH.

[RichCCFC]

or Ray Leonard who actually beat Hearns at the weight + SRR