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The boxing establishment always tries to anoint the next great heavyweight because regardless of what people say about the lower weight classes providing better fights the Heavyweight Champion has always been the sport’s most influential ambassador except in rare cases when Special champions like Oscar De La Hoya, Ray Robinson, and Ray Leonard have carried the sport. Thus as the need for a popular and dominate heavyweight champion foments speculation, unworthy men are bestowed with the title of the possible next great heavyweight and this occurs regularly especially when the division is weak and destitute because people are naturally inclined to think, “Someone’s going to come along, they always do.”
Michael Grant is the perfect example of this tendency to prematurely label a heavyweight a “possible Heavyweight Great.” Michael was huge at 6’7 and 255 pounds of rock solid muscle and beat a number of quality heavyweights such as Andrew Golota, Lou Savarese, and a fresh Obed Sullivan. [details]
Michael Grant is the perfect example of this tendency to prematurely label a heavyweight a “possible Heavyweight Great.” Michael was huge at 6’7 and 255 pounds of rock solid muscle and beat a number of quality heavyweights such as Andrew Golota, Lou Savarese, and a fresh Obed Sullivan. [details]
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