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Former HW Champs at CW...ATG???
Posted: 16 May 2018, 19:24
by oogiebe
Another thread spawned this. How would the following former HW champs fair at cruiserweight if they had it back then.
Joe Frazier - ...smokin' Joe would be a moderately big guy at cruiserweight (given we all believe he was over 6' tall)
Floyd Patterson - Speed Power and size...Patterson? Really? Yes at Cruiserweight
Marciano - I look at Uzyk and scratch my head
Who else? Why and why not an ATG?
Re: Former HW Champs at CW...ATG???
Posted: 16 May 2018, 23:55
by gilgamesh
They all would've been fantastic Cruiserweights.
Re: Former HW Champs at CW...ATG???
Posted: 17 May 2018, 02:47
by Scypion
Jimmy Ellis
Re: Former HW Champs at CW...ATG???
Posted: 17 May 2018, 20:42
by bwu
oogiebe wrote: ↑16 May 2018, 19:24
Another thread spawned this. How would the following former HW champs fair at cruiserweight if they had it back then.
Joe Frazier - ...smokin' Joe would be a moderately big guy at cruiserweight (given we all believe he was over 6' tall)
Floyd Patterson - Speed Power and size...Patterson? Really? Yes at Cruiserweight
Marciano - I look at Uzyk and scratch my head
Who else? Why and why not an ATG?
All of them would have thrived. As far as other champs, I would suggest that Fitzsimmons, Johnson, Dempsey, Tunney, Louis and Charles all would've had good runs. BTW, I'm missing the joke about Frazier right? I saw the guy in person once, very briefly, but he seemed way shorter. Patterson was at the same event and he was taller, but not imposing. It made their very considerable accomplishments all the more impressive.