Is it Possible for a Heavyweight to be P4P?

[freudianfloyd]

And I'm not talking about a fighter that moves up to heavyweight from a lower class like Roy Jones. But a real heavyweight. Lets say Mike Tyson in his prime dropped 40 lbs and fought the light heavy champ, and won, and then moved up to Cruiser and won, would he be a great p4p fighter, or just a big guy picking on a little guy?

[BUSINESSMAN]

you're asking two different questions. tyson WAS top p4p in his prime.

[one-Punch]

Heavyweight division isn't what it use to be.

[freudianfloyd]

you're asking two different questions. tyson WAS top p4p in his prime.

Show me where Tyson was ever ranked in the p4p ratings? I was using him as an example, the question was a heavyweight dropping weight to fight smaller guys. I just used Tyson because in his prime he was a smallish heavyweight usually weighing around 212 - 216lbs.

[mayquiao]

No it's not possible.

Heavyweights are different.

[BUSINESSMAN]

Show me where Tyson was ever ranked in the p4p ratings? I was using him as an example, the question was a heavyweight dropping weight to fight smaller guys. I just used Tyson because in his prime he was a smallish heavyweight usually weighing around 212 - 216lbs.

foo http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph..._Ratings:_1989

[freudianfloyd]

foo http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph..._Ratings:_1989

Well thank you for the proof.

[FIGHTING_FLIP]

nice proof..you the man "vicious right"

[squealpiggy]

Pound for pound is not about changing weight division, it's about if there was no size advantage for either fighter who would win. Which is why it's hard for big heavyweights like Lennox Lewis or Wladimir Klitschko to ever be rated p4p: There size forms part of their advantage over their opponent. If you remove that advantage they may not be as successful. So Tyson, at less than 6' and under 220 lbs at times was effective despite his short stature and was easy to rate as a pound for pound fighter.

[rambov]

it used to be my good man