Have the heavyweight ever being as fat?

[Canelo Phresh]

never had a chance heavies from the seventies would be champs nowadays.

[Rick Grimes]

Thats correct. Sultan, Byrd, Boytsov, Chagaev, Mollo, and Chambers are all natural cruiserweights.

Some of the best "heavyweight" fights of all time involved people who would be cruiserweights now. Ali vs. Liston for example - Ali was below 200 in the mid-sixties. Marciano was below 200 for his whole career!

So most of Wlad's best wins are against natural cruiserweights.

[paulf]

American guys with athletic talent and good size rarely go into boxing these days. I guess thats why so many American contenders are fatties. But Americans are pretty fat as a people, so...

As for the Europeans... they have no excuse.

[Pirao]

Is it just me or have the heavyweights turned in to a buch of fat asses . I mean you have to look at prospect olander soils , sam peter, david tua, hasihm rahman, ruslan chagev, alexander povetkin, sultan ibragimov. I mean talk about the 80's heavyweights be fat asses but the only fat contenders in the eighties were tony tubbs and tim witherspoon. Where as now everyone outside of wlad klitschko is carrying extra weight.

Of those only Odlanier Solis is a fatass, so why are you making things up to try to make an argument?

[Marchegiano]

There are some fit ones - Wlad, Boytsov, Dimitrenko, Thompson, Ruiz, Virchis for example.

But yes, it is ridiculous how many of the others are overweight. There were always some older fat heavyweights like Tony Galento. But it is sickening to now see young guys like L'Heureux, Koval, and Binkowski with big beer guts.

Exactly! There were less fat guys in the past, and they tended to be old. We've got a horrible mix of young, fat, greedy, lazy *******s that seriously could be champ once some retiring happens. I talk about Haye and Wlad plenty, but it'll be a sad day when all we have left is a bunch of Two Ton Toney's vying for glory.