Which Boxers had the biggest necks??

[Caractacus]

Just curious.
maybe someone moderator here at boxrec can sieve the boxrec database for that one.

[Seamus]

Kid Gavilan comes to mind.

[evrenb]

Just curious.
maybe someone moderator here at boxrec can sieve the boxrec database for that one.

As in a Tyson 20 inch or long??

[Caractacus]

check out this rare photograph of Mike Tyson's neck by photographer Albert Watson that appeared in the May 22 1986 issue of ROLLING STONE magazine
back when Tyson was still in his prime.


http://www.phaidon.com/resource/albertuntitled-2.jpg

[Bricks]

The last fifteen years weight training and cross neck training along with 24 hours prior weigh ins have meant u see bigger necks.

Pazienza,canelo,weaver,Lionel butler,foreman,lacey.

[Controversial]

Holyfield

[Giancarlo]

[Caractacus]

The Great John L. Sullivan had a 17 inch neck girth.
(But no one was on the juice back in 1889).

[Caractacus]

Andre the Giant had a 24 inch neck girth in comparison.

[Caractacus]

Charles 'Sonny' Liston had a 17.5 inch neck.

[Caractacus]

George Foreman has a 18 inch neck circumference

[Caractacus]

Holyfield

Holyfields neck circumference is listed in one source
as 19.5 inches,
but former heavyweight challenger Gerry Cooney
neck girth was listed also at 19.5 inches when he fought George Foreman in 1991.

[Caractacus]

Joe Frazier's neck measured 17.5 inches too.

[HomicideHenry]

Am surprised no one has mentioned Carnera or Valuev and Willard...

Carnera had a 19 and three quarter inch neck

Willard had a 17 and one quarter inch neck

Valuev had a 21 and one half inch neck... a record I imagine that won't ever be surpassed in boxing.

[Tomasino]

Am surprised no one has mentioned Carnera or Valuev and Willard...

Carnera had a 19 and three quarter inch neck

Willard had a 17 and one quarter inch neck

Valuev had a 21 and one half inch neck... a record I imagine that won't ever be surpassed in boxing.

Eric Esch?

[Caractacus]

Joe Louis had a 17 inch neck,but it was also a long neck.
A lot of boxing analyis back then had said that would
have made him vulnerable to a knockout punch.

[HomicideHenry]

Eric Esch?

http://articles.philly.com/1997-12-04/s ... eavyweight

According to an article in 1997, Esch had (then anyways) a 23 inch neck.

In those early years of his career, Esch weighed 320 pounds and sometimes neared 400.

Don't know how much you can say was neck, and how much was fat though

That does make me wonder, though, the neck measurement of Claude McBride... he was taller than Esch and weighed just as much at times.