Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 16 May 2016, 19:42
So who do you think had the best build in boxing history? I'm thinking Ken Norton hands down. But Evander Holyfield, Marvin Hagler, Cleveland Williams also come to mind.
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Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 16 May 2016, 20:52
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 16 May 2016, 21:01
Tim Bradley has an amazing physique. Do they gotta be Heavyweights to count?
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 09:41
Emile Griffith had the biggest shoulders I've ever seen for a waist so small.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 09:48
Carmen Basillio was pretty well built. Agree with Griffith, he'd be called a juicer today.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 11:06
tagjohnson wrote:So who do you think had the best build in boxing history? I'm thinking Ken Norton hands down. But Evander Holyfield, Marvin Hagler, Cleveland Williams also come to mind.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 14:03
Gayest thread started in boxrec history.....
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 14:37
You know,Lately I been wondering why no one here had done a thread on Kate Upton over in the 'off-topic" forum too.
Just makes you wonder,thats all.
Just makes you wonder,thats all.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 14:39
You wouldn't notice unless Corrie Sanders was in it.Caractacus wrote:You know,Lately I been wondering why no one here had done a thread on Kate Upton over in the 'off-topic" forum too.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 14:40
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:You wouldn't notice unless Corrie Sanders was in it.Caractacus wrote:You know,Lately I been wondering why no one here had done a thread on Kate Upton over in the 'off-topic" forum too.
WANNA BET ?
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 15:29
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:You wouldn't notice unless Corrie Sanders was in it.Caractacus wrote:You know,Lately I been wondering why no one here had done a thread on Kate Upton over in the 'off-topic" forum too.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 15:37
davie wrote:Gayest thread started in boxrec history.....
Hardly. Everyone commented on the likes of Frank Bruno's physique when he was active. Old boys at the gym always went on about Norton. Joshua's talked about the same way. Hence my mention of juicers
I always remember seeing Basillio v Robinson when I was young and thinking I wanted to be built as good as Basillio when I'm older. He was a beast at WW.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 16:30
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 16:34
well it is international day against homophobics today. Quite fitting.davie wrote:Gayest thread started in boxrec history.....
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 17 May 2016, 16:39
Bradley always looks like he's trained for a year solid and had an immaculate diet.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 12:24
I had always thought that World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera had an astounding physique.
Never seen anything like it.
He must have had some throwback gene to the time
the late Cro-Magnon man Hunter/Gathers of Europe transformed into farmers around ten thousand years ago.
sort of like a "Manster"
Today he would probably be accused of being on the juice,roids,human growth serman
and anything else to give a person a physcically avantage through modern chemisty
Never seen anything like it.
He must have had some throwback gene to the time
the late Cro-Magnon man Hunter/Gathers of Europe transformed into farmers around ten thousand years ago.
sort of like a "Manster"
Today he would probably be accused of being on the juice,roids,human growth serman
and anything else to give a person a physcically avantage through modern chemisty
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 12:30
Another old old tyme boxer who would have appeared to have had a modern day (A.D 1950)
body builders physique would have been
Al Kaufman of San Francisco.
who had fought Jack Johnson and later became his chief sparring partner.
He was really ripped and cut
most have the heavyweight fighters back then seem to have had a layer of subcuteous fat on them no matter how hard they trained
and had their weight down.
Maybe Al Kaufman had a different diet back then,then most fighters ?
He sort of reminded me of the body building cultures that started in California after WW II
and produced individuals like Steve Reeves.
Perhaps Al Kaufman was just ahead of his time.
body builders physique would have been
Al Kaufman of San Francisco.
who had fought Jack Johnson and later became his chief sparring partner.
He was really ripped and cut
most have the heavyweight fighters back then seem to have had a layer of subcuteous fat on them no matter how hard they trained
and had their weight down.
Maybe Al Kaufman had a different diet back then,then most fighters ?
He sort of reminded me of the body building cultures that started in California after WW II
and produced individuals like Steve Reeves.
Perhaps Al Kaufman was just ahead of his time.
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 15:02
1.Ken Norton
2.Mike Weaver
3.Marvin Hagler
4.Evander Holyfield
5.Emile Griffith
6.Muhammad Ali
7.Jack Johnson
8.Tim Bradley
9.Joe Bugner
10.George Foreman
11.Chris Eubank
12.Frank Bruno
13.Carmen Basillio
14.Jersey Joe Walcott
15.Cleveland Williams
2.Mike Weaver
3.Marvin Hagler
4.Evander Holyfield
5.Emile Griffith
6.Muhammad Ali
7.Jack Johnson
8.Tim Bradley
9.Joe Bugner
10.George Foreman
11.Chris Eubank
12.Frank Bruno
13.Carmen Basillio
14.Jersey Joe Walcott
15.Cleveland Williams
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 16:45
Back in 1974 when I was still 13,this is the physique I wanted to have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1riSAUlpxY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1riSAUlpxY
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 17:36
Sugar Ray Robinson had the best physique in Fistic History... I actually don't think Robinson was that dedicated or hard a trainer. He wasn’t body conscious at all. I never ONCE saw Robinson in the classic “body builder biceps pose” that everyone does standing on the scales. George Gainford said Robinson was a bit embarrassed about his body. He thought he had puny looking arms compared to some of the guys he fought. He never lifted weights, which boxers were told NOT to do in those days. He lost fights to guys like Basilio, Fuller, Ralph Jones, Turpin, Maxim, and seemed to "phone it in" for some fights like Roberto Duran did after he got rich. But SRR always looked in shape. He had a magnificently natural "boxer's body" with long smooth muscles, perfect symmetry and proportion… A length of arms, legs, neck, and torso that was perfect for a middleweight… He had no flaws in his shoulders, chest, neck, arms, legs, waist or back. He looked the part of a boxer in every way.
The absolute worst physique I’ve ever seen on an undefeated World Ranked boxer is that of Heavyweight Andy Ruiz... No matter how hard Ruiz trains he says his body doesn’t seem to change... The fat isn’t coming off. The muscles aren’t coming in. The marshmallow look just doesn’t go away. Eddie Hearn wanted to give Andy Ruiz a shot at Joshua, but said. “When I looked at the photos and footage of his fights there’s no way. I’d catch Hell for having this guy fight Joshua. He has a great record and is undefeated and everything, but he doesn’t look the part.”
The absolute worst physique I’ve ever seen on an undefeated World Ranked boxer is that of Heavyweight Andy Ruiz... No matter how hard Ruiz trains he says his body doesn’t seem to change... The fat isn’t coming off. The muscles aren’t coming in. The marshmallow look just doesn’t go away. Eddie Hearn wanted to give Andy Ruiz a shot at Joshua, but said. “When I looked at the photos and footage of his fights there’s no way. I’d catch Hell for having this guy fight Joshua. He has a great record and is undefeated and everything, but he doesn’t look the part.”
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 18:29
Double post
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 18:31
Judah Ben Fur wrote:Norton u get the feeling never tried it was natural.if he was tryi g he would have tanned to get extra definition.tagjohnson wrote:So who do you think had the best build in boxing history? I'm thinking Ken Norton hands down. But Evander Holyfield, Marvin Hagler, Cleveland Williams also come to mind.
Early hw holyfield was good....but id go with michael watson and eubanks snr being better....hagler was v good....hearns in 1984-87 was incredible...jimmy thunder was better than bruno...
Srl in 1981 v good biceps
Modern day i go with 1987 hearns the one who beat roldan.....incredible should to waisht taper and lat muscles
But ovverall sugar ray robinson!
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 18:34
Brunos physique looked very very good .but in bodybuilding terms he had no chest and his lats were not great.95gerog wrote:
I forgot to mention vinnie pazienza.....at 154 he looked incredible!
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 18:54
Re: Best Physique in Boxing History
Posted: 18 May 2016, 18:55
Judah Ben Fur wrote:Brunos physique looked very very good .but in bodybuilding terms he had no chest and his lats were not great.95gerog wrote:
I forgot to mention vinnie pazienza.....at 154 he looked incredible!
Somehow I don't think a bigger chest and more lats would have made him a better boxer.