Does Sam Peter need to be 257?

[butterfly1964]

Here is Sam Peter when he was 20 years old, young and beautiful (to paraphrase Larry Merchant):




So where did the extra 40 pounds get him?

That pic is the weight he should be at.

[potatoes]

That pic is the weight he should be at.

.....yeah, I agree. When a man is in boxing-shape that is what his body looks like. Here is a picture of Joe Louis at 218 and near the end of his career:


Since the tale-of-the-tape on Sam Peter has never been revealled, probably due to embarrassment, we can not know for sure how much bigger his bone stracture was than Joe Louis. All we know for sure is that Louis was taller and lighter.