Whats the biggest drop in a fighters weight in history??

[The Scranton Assassin]

Chris Byrd went from about 212 to 175 and got pounded. What are some other huge drops in fighters weight through out the years? John L Sullivan went from 229 to 190 a few times. Chad Van Sickle deserves a mention here as well.

[Adamj1987]

duran goin from 180 to 147 for leonard rematch - 300th post get in!

[SteveO]

Last year former UBO heavyweight champion Adrian Rajkai fought at 205lbs and 4 months later fought at 155lbs!

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

[allworld80]

Antonio Tarver from about 220 against Balboa to 175 against Hopkins.

[belowthebelt]

dont know about weight drop but victor luis ferreira retired as a welterweight and started his comeback at heavyweight!!
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

*edit : he started as a light welterweight !!

[Adamj1987]

dont know about weight drop but victor luis ferreira retired as a welterweight and started his comeback at heavyweight!!
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

*edit : he started as a light welterweight !!

thats the opposite were talking about dropping weight this is gaining weight

nice find thought

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

Chris Byrd went from about 212 to 175 and got pounded. What are some other huge drops in fighters weight through out the years? John L Sullivan went from 229 to 190 a few times. Chad Van Sickle deserves a mention here as well.

- 'Fraid you chaps ain't even close.

Jeffries lost at least 100lbs after 6 yrs absence to go against JJohnson, about 30% of his body weight.

Buster Douglas was well over 400lbs when he was carted off to the hospital in diabetic shock and almost died. His first fight back after a similar 6 yrs absence was at 244, a loss of at least 156 lbs, a junior middleweight, or 40% of his body weight.

Butterbean got his nickname via his diet, dropping 100 + lbs from his 400+ lb frame to make 280 or so for the Toughman Heavyweight limit. 5X heavy toughman champ before turning pro. Embarrassed Holmes and been willing to take on MMA fighters.

Message to the wise: Don't call him fatboy unless you have a clear exit with some speed to turn on!

Bean at 40 currently back to his 400+ weight of around 420 or so.

[Robinson]

As far as fluctuating fighting weights go...

check out Nate Tubbs....Tony's brother.

Pro debut at 242lbs.
Fourth fight at 205lbs
then a career low of 185lbs...
and in a fight 12 days later......he is up to 245lbs...

How do you go from 185lbs from one fght to another fight
in less than two weeks at 245lbs !!! That takes effort.

[zojo]

I may be off on the numbers, but didn't Jane Couch start boxing in order to lose weight? If I rmember correctly, her doctor told her she needed to quit smoking and start exercising. This lead her to a boxing class and she shed like 100 pounds. She was in such good shape that she started boxing for real....

[oliverfennell]

I may be off on the numbers, but didn't Jane Couch start boxing in order to lose weight? If I rmember correctly, her doctor told her she needed to quit smoking and start exercising. This lead her to a boxing class and she shed like 100 pounds. She was in such good shape that she started boxing for real....

Wow, if that's true I'd love to see the "before" pics.

Broughton, look for Butterbean's unlicensed fight against Mark Potter on YouTube, from late last year. You'd be well within your rights to call him fatboy and you wouldn't have to run too fast! I think he's actually at serious risk fighting at that weight and age. He was just a punchbag vs Potter.

[Adamj1987]

[quote="BroughtonRulesRefuge"]
Butterbean got his nickname via his diet, dropping 100 + lbs from his 400+ lb frame to make 280 or so for the Toughman Heavyweight limit. 5X heavy toughman champ before turning pro. Embarrassed Holmes and been willing to take on MMA fighters.

[quote]

He doesnt lose weight anymore i saw him in september boxing and he must of weighed 400+ his arms bearly came past his belly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7bEP_SzSk

That was the fight i went to see

[Tantum]

As far as fluctuating fighting weights go...

check out Nate Tubbs....Tony's brother.

Pro debut at 242lbs.
Fourth fight at 205lbs
then a career low of 185lbs...
and in a fight 12 days later......he is up to 245lbs...

How do you go from 185lbs from one fght to another fight
in less than two weeks at 245lbs !!! That takes effort.

60lbs in 12 days...

Was he eating sticks of butter inbetween his 15 meals a day? What the fuck.

[BroughtonRulesRefuge]

Broughton, look for Butterbean's unlicensed fight against Mark Potter on YouTube, from late last year. You'd be well within your rights to call him fatboy and you wouldn't have to run too fast!

- All Bean has to do is drop and roll. The surrounding air drawn into the vacuum that his body occupied sucks the clueless victim in and of course they're flattened in the steamrolling action.

Bean is hampered by boxing and UFC rules. Of course if he comes into the ring hungry, the poor witless victim to become part of Bean's victuals that evening. Best way to win over Bean is come bearing a 5 gallon bucket of home fried chicken, and a gallon of grandma's blackberry cobbler and a gallon of homemade vanilla ice cream. Be scoring plenty of points there.

[Brendan Ryan]

Chris Byrd went from about 212 to 175 and got pounded. What are some other huge drops in fighters weight through out the years? John L Sullivan went from 229 to 190 a few times. Chad Van Sickle deserves a mention here as well.

I can tell you this after not being near a gym for a couple of months i was contacted by my manager at the time Johnny Griffin who offered me a fight against unbeaten prosec & future common wealth champ Bernard Paul,7 days before the fight i was contacted, i weighed 11 and a half stone & i had to be 10 stone 1 pound on the night so i went coz the fight was gonna be shown on sky tv i took the fight went running twice a day with bin bags on and ate next to fornicate all, on evening of show arrives at Dagenham leisure centre 2 hours before the my fight was to begin & weighs in at 10 stone 6 n half pounds, Barry hearns man says you aint fightin unless you lose some weight, WE NEVER SAW BERNARD WEIGH IN BUT MY CHICKEN SHIT MANAGER N TRAINER TONY HARRIS DONT SAY SHIT TO BERNARDS BOYS instead i ends up on a running machine in Dagenham centre with bin bags on etc etc for 45 minutes & gets rid of 3nhalf pounds, i only had an hour n 20 mins before i in ring but tries to eat something before the fight but my stomach had shrunk threw lack of eating over last week & so could only squeeze in half a banana, IF YOU WANNA SEE WHAT HAPPENED GO TO MY MY SPACE PAGE, MY NAME TITLE IS >Brendan Ryan aka Tao Karma NoWall THE REALFEEL ALL< Its worth a trip believe.Gotta load of my fights on there & more, Peace In.

[Robinson]

Thanks for that story Brendan

thats a mosnter effort mate.

I have always found that in fighting, you often have two
events...making weight and then fighting.

[Brendan Ryan]

Thankyou Robinson, your exactly right mate, man i turned pro as a superfeather but reall then i was a welter if id eaten right, never did, always sweatin off & eatin away at muscle, weakenin myself to please my managers, boxed most my carrer at light welter but really even then i was at least a middle strippin my self takin away all my strengths, i box unlicensed now at heavy and feel strong as an ox just cant be arsed to get the cardio now, but im unbeatable for two to 3 rounds without it, thanks for your appreciation Robinson, check out some of my fights on my space let me know what you think bruv, peace in. ,

[Robinson]

hey mate....do you have any youtube clips ?

I to use Myspace .... do you have to have an
account ?

Its funny how alot of people in and out of the fight game
over look weighing in.....its easy for some and well...for the
rest of us..

I look forward to checking out your fights.

Take care.