Is 5'9" too short to fight as an amateur Middleweight (165 lbs)?

[Marchegiano]

No, learn how to fight short, duh.

[MasterPlan]

No offense, but that is a terrible example.....

Well Robert Easter Jr is 5'11. Your height has nothing to do with anything.

[NORMNEALON]

U should be fine but I would cut to 152 myself , hell I walk around at 170 and fought every amateur fight I had at 141

[_Rexy_]

U should be fine but I would cut to 152 myself , hell I walk around at 170 and fought every amateur fight I had at 141

Whoa...actually??

[Tails]

That is not short at all for that weightclass. Besides size is not determined only by height but natural body mass and bone structure as well.

Someone can be a few inches taller than somebody but they may be a lot thicker while the other person is really thin. Its a give and take.

In the amateurs as a teen I competed around 141 from time to time when I would not diet and I am not even 5'5". I was shorter but a lot quicker than most at that weight and did not have any noticeable strength difference compared to them. As opposed to when I was at 123 and not quicker but a lot stronger compared to my opponents.

[The D3vil]

Any body in here can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Shawn Porter compete as a successful middleweight as an amateur & he's only 5'7". I believe he actually beat Oleksandr Usyk in the amateurs too, right?

[GreatRubdini]

You'll do better if you compete at 152. Take natural diuretic, put on sweet sweat/albolene on ur body and wear a sauna suit

[_Maxi]

I'm looking to start competing and my natural bodyweight tends to hover between 160-165 lbs, but middleweights tend to be taller, so I'm just looking for people's opinions. Thanks.

No, you will be fine.

[D4thincarnation]

You weigh in around 10-15lbs bellow your fighting weight in the pro game.

[KayDub]

I'm looking to start competing and my natural bodyweight tends to hover between 160-165 lbs, but middleweights tend to be taller, so I'm just looking for people's opinions. Thanks.

If you naturally weigh that and you aren't boxing or training to box already you will surely lose quite a bit of weight. I guarantee you could make 152.