Ewart Potgieter?

[TBear]

lol what the hell

[Scott9945]

Great find TBear. You have to assume a genuine heavyweight boxer like Ali had bigger than average hands, yet it looked like a father and his 8 year old son when they compared hand size. People have forgotten what an amazing physical speciman Wilt was, especially for that era.

[NChristo]

Didn't Cus D'Amato offer to train Wilt ?, might of been someone else but Cus jumps to mind. Wilt's dad talked him out of going to sign for the fight suggesting that he works on his free throws instead .

[BigStereotype]

94 inches of reach is unreal


hell, my couch is like 87 inches and i literally cannot comprenend a person able to cover its length with his wingspan.



if somebody doesnt get what reach does for punching power i'll have them drop a the leg of a 90 inch couch on your foot and then go over to the chair thats about two feet wide and drop on leg on his foot


lol or have them in the ring with a HW, but that's too much to ask generally.

94 effing inches.


to answer your thread, i have never heard of this man. kind of an obscure reference, certainly, but it wont be the last time i've never heard of sombody

there's an active (i think) HW with a 90 inch reach today named julius long. he mainly uses his reach to tie his man up, lol. he's also seven feet tall and fights close. no wonder he hasnt made lots of headway. he's a journeyman.


incidentally, if you want to find a great american HW, centers in the NBA all have 90+ inch reaches, lol
every damn one of them

and some of them can jump out of the building.

Can you imagine Javale McGee fighting with his 7'1"/88" wingspan/crazy megatron athleticism? He'd be Wlad + 8"!!