Greatest small heavywieghts of all time

[MELLY-MEL...]

Rocky Marciano, Tyson, Tua, Holy!

[TheGreatA]

Tyson wasn't that small. He was short but weighed like from 210 to 235 in his career, a lot more than most of these other boxers who fought similar sized opposition too.

He was one of the shortest successful heavyweights though, his reach is shorter than Mayweather's.

[ben41193]

uhhhh joe louis

[duffgun]

I was once lucky enough to talk to Floyd on a call in show. I asked him if he regretted not being the great lightheavy he could have been. Patterson said that he'd "rather be a good heavyweight than a great lightheavyweight". I then asked him if he regretted never getting the chance to fight Marciano. Without hesitating, he simply said "no".

Floyd Patterson won a title eliminator against Tommy Jackson to fight Marciano but Marciano decided to retire and Archie Moore was brought in instead most experts believed Moore would beat Patterson. Interesting to note that Patterson won the title eliminator despite breaking his hand in the 3rd or 4th round.

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Marciano fought fighters around his size, if not smaller when they started. He never faced a legit 200+ pound HW.

Tyson, he fought bigger fighters, but his best win really is against Spinks for legacy, who started at LH, although a HOF LH, and undefeated, still a LH who put on weight to be 200+. He also burnt out by 23. Although still, much greater than Marciano since fighting fighters 6'3+ and 230+ is hard to do.

Sam Langford might be my choice, although I've seen only the youtube videos of him. His record and articles is the only thing I can really go on and the fact that Dempsey's manager said kindly "no" for him to fight Dempsey.

Jack Johnson wasn't to big and he defeated all the top black fighters and white fighters until he was old and shot.

Louis also fought bigger fighters so I'm surprised he wasn't put on the list.




I'll have to think about it, but Sam is at the top right now.

He was big for the time, hence the nickname "Galveston Gaint"