Boxers who are/were huge for their division

jezzamundo
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Boxers who are/were huge for their division

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Whether we're talking about big drainers like JCC Jr (who would have been big for a super middleweight, yet campaigned at middleweight) or freakishly tall guys like Paul Williams (who claimed to be 6'1" but was really at least 6'2" if not 6'3" and a welterweight) - who are some of the other guys who are of were giants for their weight division?
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Guillermo Jones is fairly big for CW and has been caught multiple times there using banned substances commonly taken to aid weight loss, yet somehow at around 6'4" he once challenged for a world title at JMW.
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He's probably the best example I can think of. Watching him in the ring, dwarfing Lebedev, then thinking that that he was once a welterweight seemed insane.
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Here in Britain I always felt that both Nathan Cleverly and Tony Bellew looked big for Light-Heavyweights. Plus Martin Murray also looked big for a Middleweight as well.
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Tommy Hearns at Welterweight...
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Kell Brook is a big lad for welter.
Ovill McKenzie at light heavy
Gatti at junior lightweight
De La Hoya at Jnr light and lightweight
James Toney at middle and light middle
Juan Roldan looked a beast at middle
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Callum Smith looks huge at SMW.
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digzee wrote:Callum Smith looks huge at SMW.
:TU: good call, he is a lump.
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palooka wrote:Kell Brook is a big lad for welter.
Ovill McKenzie at light heavy
Gatti at junior lightweight
De La Hoya at Jnr light and lightweight
James Toney at middle and light middle
Juan Roldan looked a beast at middle
Toney looks huge even for Heavyweight! :lol:
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Junior Jones and the galaxy twins
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Mark Breland, was massive at Welterweight.
Nikolai Valuev. Well you just don't get much bigger than him.
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Jeff Fenech
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palooka wrote:Jeff Fenech

That's got to be one of my favourite wins when Fenech got bombed out by Nelson in front of Fenech's home crowd, after the draw the previous fight, brilliant!
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Antonio Mayorga
Antonio Margarito
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Zolani Tete and Nicholas Walters.
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Wilfredo Gomez
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paul williams 154
chavez jr middleweight
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I'm often shocked by how big fighters are, many years ago I bumped in to Robin Ried when he was SM world champ he was twice the size of me and I weighed about 13 stone, his arms were thicker than my legs.
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I once bumped into Gary Jacobs and he was a big lad, I once saw Gary Mason and he was the biggest man I've ever seen.
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Yeah Mason certainly was a big unit!
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ade the grenade wrote:Tommy Hearns at Welterweight...
^This! :TU:

How Tommy Hearns ever got down to welterweight, I will never know! :-?
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Post by King Carlos »

A few others:

Donaire at Flyweight
Joey Olivo (5'9 at Jr. Flyweight)
Celestino Caballero (5'11 at Super Bantam)
Tony Pep (6'1 at Super Feather)
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Raul Perez
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Post by Chepppaaa »

nicholos walthers at featherweight
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Scott Harrison at featherweight
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