How Big
Posted: 02 Jun 2007, 09:34
Boxing is the least regulated of all sports. As long as the fighters continue to get " a little help" , they can get as big as they want.
Excellent post.HomicideHenry wrote:Was a victim of gigantism from what I understand. Freeman was gigantic for the times at 6'10"-6'11" anyways, considering the average height of a grown man was around 5'8". Hell Abraham Lincoln at 6'4" used to 'promote' himself when he ran for President as being the 'tallest' in America, offering a silver dollar to whoever could match his height. To my knowledge the tallest men in America at that time were Martin Van Buren Bates (7'2.5", claimed to be 7'5") and a soldier who was listed as 7'3" [the name escapes me at the moment]....apparently this freeman guy grew a few inches when he died....
Angus McKaskill (born in Scotland, moved to Canada as a young boy) was 7'9" and still holds the Guinness Record for being the tallest naturally grown man, he too, was from that era. As was another Canadian named Edouard Beaupre who claimed to be over 8' but was nearer to 7'8", he suffered from gigantism.
Course, Freeman could be very much like a case I read about years back of another Scotsman who was only 6'10" by the name of Samuel McDonald and claimed to be 8' in height. But to my knowledge his last authenticated height was 7'3" [Freeman, that is].