Biggest fighters for each weight class

[New England]

vywt----Primo Cannera
lthvy----Yaqui Lopez
middle----Iran Barkley
welter----Sugar Ray Robinson
light-----Aaron Prior
feather---Sandy Sadler
bantam---Carlos Zarate'
flyweight--Felix Marquez
.............some were champs others top twenty contenders. I don't consider just height, body size and weight are included. Ray.

nice nods on these two

[New England]

It's interesting that you mentioned Pryor here, common opinion is that he was natural lightweight who jumped up in weight because he couldn't get fights at 135?

that was the case.

[Ray Corso]

135lbs + 2lbs/ Duran vs Prior!! That would headline over any bout today. Yes no one was interested in fighting Prior, he was a freak of nature and when his mind was right a dangerous fighter to deal with. He looked like a middleweight at the weigh ins!! Very very strong at 135lbs.
Ray.

[JAB5239]

Iran Barkley at 160.

McClellan is up there too at 160.

JCC jr.....the biggest middleweight of all time!!

[them_apples]

at 175, bob foster, 6'3 80 reach

at middleweight - I think michael nunn was pretty big. Made Toney look small.

at FW, arguello?

[Tiozzo]

By big i mean physically the biggest fghters ever for each weight class. Also please no obscure names lets narrow it down to just champions and contenders.

Heavyweight - Nikolay Valuev
200 - ???
175 - Henry Maske
168 - ???
160 - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
154 - Paul Williams
147 - Paul Williams
140 - ???
135 - Ali Funeka
130 - Deigo Corrales
126 - Robert Guerrero
122 - Oscar Larios
118 - ???
115 - ???
112 - ???
108 - Giovani Segura
105 - ???

168-Mario Veit
154-Guillermo Jones
147-Mark Breland

[Cardinal Buck]

140 is Hugo Pineda and it isn't close.

[Scott9945]

Tommy Hearns was frightening at 147. De La Hoya was huge at 130.

[joseph5620]

By big i mean physically the biggest fghters ever for each weight class. Also please no obscure names lets narrow it down to just champions and contenders.

Heavyweight - Nikolay Valuev
200 - ???
175 - Henry Maske
168 - ???
160 - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
154 - Paul Williams
147 - Paul Williams
140 - ???
135 - Ali Funeka
130 - Deigo Corrales
126 - Robert Guerrero
122 - Oscar Larios
118 - ???
115 - ???
112 - ???
108 - Giovani Segura
105 - ???

I've read that Jake Lamotta was really too big for the middleweight limit and struggled to make 160. He has said he would fight at 168 today.

[BennyST]

At Cruiserweight I'd say David Haye, he always seemed huge for me there. Also O'Neil Bell was pretty big wasn't he?
168... No idea, maybe Bute?
Guillermo Jones might've been bigger than Paul Williams at 154!
At 147 I'd say Hugo Pineda, he fought Trinidad and look freakishly big fighting Tito who was big welterweight himself. Then he ended up as cruiserweight.
140... Maybe Cotto, he was known for putting big amount of weight while fighting there and also looked so much stronger than all his opponents.
122 - Was Larrios bigger than Caballero there?
Bantamweight - Wasn't Tim Austin big guy? I didn't see him fight for a while.
Donaire was a monster at flyweight really... and at super flyweight as well. He looked just ridiculously huge against some opponents.
Rodel Mayol was pretty damn big at strawweight I believe.

He also fought Tszyu at 140!!! He was undefeated at the time. Luckily it was in his (Tszyu's) prime and he was still an animal at that stage. Fast, still boxed well, and had stamina to burn. It was a good fight too. Guy was just so big in comparison it was incredible. Imagine a LHW/CW fighting Tszyu.....It looked like a slightly leaner version of Steve Cunningham fighting Tszyu.