"Fat" Fighters

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 04 Jun 2006, 09:08

Mind you this list of 'super-heavyweights' does not include men who were really tall; such as Gogea Mitu of Romania who stood 7'4" and weighed 327 pounds.

1.) Eric 'Butterbean' Esch

2.) Claude 'Humphrey' McBride*

3.) Jimmy Black---360 pounds*

4.) "Two Ton" Tony Galento

5.) Don Cockell

6.) "The Boss" Joe Hipp

* Both these men fought eachother, and with McBride being 340 and Black being 360, they once held the record for the greatest amount of weight combined between two fighters (700 pounds).

Numbers 4-6 are not so much 'fat' but their physical appearance was not of an atheltic or average build, but more 'soft'.

Anybody else think of any fat fighters?

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 04 Jun 2006, 09:30

Percell Davis.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=1127

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » 04 Jun 2006, 09:59

What about Willie Meehan?

Tantum · Post by **Tantum** » 04 Jun 2006, 11:44

Lionel Butler

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 04 Jun 2006, 12:11

Leroy Jones.

Tantum · Post by **Tantum** » 04 Jun 2006, 13:12

Buster Douglas

dempseyfire · Post by **dempseyfire** » 04 Jun 2006, 13:44

I remember Douglas being so derided for coming in 'fat' vs Holyfield. But today when one looks at that film and current HWs like Tua, Brewster, Johnson, Toney etc. he looks slender!

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 05 Jun 2006, 01:20

Tony 'TNT' Tubbs aka "The Cincinnati Fatty"

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 05 Jun 2006, 01:52

..tami mauriello was a little flabby when he fought as a heavyweight.

Tantum · Post by **Tantum** » 05 Jun 2006, 02:10

Stacy Goodson

barry · Post by **barry** » 05 Jun 2006, 03:17

About 70% of the heavyweight fighters fighting today could make the list!

Kirk Johnson, James Toney, David Tua, Danny Williams, Hasim Rahman, Sam Peter...just to name a few, hell they are all constantly battling weight and most of the time they don't even put a half-ass effort to even come into the ring in half-decent shape!

barry · Post by **barry** » 05 Jun 2006, 05:13

Michael Dokes and Tony Tubbs are a couple more that immediately come to mind...and then of course there is James "Buster" Douglas!

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 05 Jun 2006, 07:00

Their were a lot of heavyweights in the eighties who started their career off in a slimmed down state and at least fairly well conditioned and then turning to flab later on. I did'nt see Dokes late in his career but he did not start out as a fat fighter. John Tate and Greg Page were a couple more examples. You could prabably trace back and find a lot of guys who did'nt start out as fat but ended up that way.

Flump · Post by **Flump** » 08 Jun 2006, 07:21

Numerous jouneymen. For example

Sammy Scaff,Donnie Long,Lionel Washington,Danny Stonewalker,
Bigfoot Martin and not forgetting the comeback kid himself, 'Big' George Foreman.

sockdolager · Post by **sockdolager** » 08 Jun 2006, 08:34

Tantum wrote:Stacy Goodson

perfect.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 08 Jun 2006, 13:05

2.) Claude 'Humphrey' McBride*

3.) Jimmy Black---360 pounds*

Was this fight televised? I'm sure I may have seen a clip of it on TV years ago on a sports quiz program.

generic screen name · Post by **generic screen name** » 08 Jun 2006, 22:10

Buster Douglas and James Toney get fatter every fight. I'll add Tonya Harding to this:

http://www.strangecelebrities.com/image ... t/8699.jpg

Rocky Balboa · Post by **Rocky Balboa** » 10 Jun 2006, 13:01

Tony Ayala JR.

Nile4000 · Post by **Nile4000** » 17 Jun 2006, 09:59

kick asner wrote:Their were a lot of heavyweights in the eighties who started their career off in a slimmed down state and at least fairly well conditioned and then turning to flab later on. I did'nt see Dokes late in his career but he did not start out as a fat fighter. John Tate and Greg Page were a couple more examples. You could prabably trace back and find a lot of guys who did'nt start out as fat but ended up that way.

Greg Page was pretty much big since the start of his pro career, I think he was around 240 by his fourth or fifth professional fight.

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 17 Jun 2006, 10:59

I went back to check it out on Boxrec and he did put on weight early on, so on second glance he was one of those fighters who's weight tended to move up and down.

Cap · Post by **Cap** » 23 Jun 2006, 23:55

Ed Dunkhorst "The Human Freight Car". He was about 6' 2" and weighed anywhere up to 250 or 260, though he could fight as low as 230. When Jim Jeffries hit 220 for the second Corbett fight he was considered HUGE!

Cap

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 24 Jun 2006, 00:08

Frankie Swindell.Spare tire in trunks.

AndreWardFan2006 · Post by **AndreWardFan2006** » 24 Jun 2006, 14:53

Riddick Bowe has gotten large