Natural Weight!

[snap the jab]

But it gets more complicated... I'm 6'2" but I've got a large frame (broad shoulders, big hands, feet, etc.) so that even when i'm perfectly lean i'm still about 210 lbs. But at 210 I'd get to be a small heavyweight and get the crap knocked out of me by a bunch of 6'4" 240 guys - so wouldn't it make more sense if I was a fighter for me to fight below my optimal weight, at say 200, so that even though I might not perform as well I'd still have a size advantage over alot the guys that I fight?

[butterfly1964]

i believe than when a fighter reaches his "prime", that weight is his natural weight. so ali's weight would be something like 212, and louis 195, and tyson 223.

[Da Iceman]

what about if your fat in your prime is that your fighting weight ?

[whatdahieu]

you mean like toney? hes donig hella good now even though hes like 55 pounds of fat

[Da Iceman]

i mean shouldnt you lose that fat and fight at that weight?

[butterfly1964]

i mean shouldnt you lose that fat and fight at that weight?

well, i'm talking about if you're not fat (and that's most fighters). toney is probably at the most a natural lightheavyweight.

[Da Iceman]

toney was better at middleweight than lightheavy

[butterfly1964]

ok, whatever, but he definetely doesn't belong on the hw roster.

[Da Iceman]

ali was natural lightheavy but he fought at heavyweight

[butterfly1964]

ali was natural lightheavy but he fought at heavyweight

um, ali was a natural hw.