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Who are some dudes who were really tall or short for their divisions?

Inspired by watching 6'6 pile of bones Seb Fundora win a fight at 154 pounds the other day. He wasnt bad tbf and dominated inside as much as he did outside

Celestino Caballero was 5' 11" and fought at bantum 120lbs

Diego Corrales was 5' 10" and fought at 130lb, he always seemed to tower over everyone he fought.

Julius Lloyd-long is listed at 7'1 with a 90 inch reach... cant win a fight but.

dudes

Btw when the hell did Julius Long get Lloyded? I see that's the actual name on his record now but it was the first i'd heard of it

So his name has that extra length now too

Ryoichi Taguchi springs to mind, a 5'6" Light Flyweight, but he actually faced a taller guy, Yuki Chinen, who was 5'7.5" at 108 can't imagine many beat him for the weight

Callum Smith is the tallest SMW champ I can remember but he’s only 6’3.

Nikolai Valuev is an obvious one.

Jamie McDonnel at Bantam?

Genaro Hernandez at SFW was about 5’11

Dwight Muhammad Qawi was a very short heavy

Tommy O (cant spell his last name) South African won an IBO at Super Middleweight and pretty sure he is taller than Callum Smith.

Couple of obvious ones who both titles in their division.

Paul William's at 6 foot 1 at 147 pounds.
Nontino Donaire at 5 foot 7 at 112 pounds.

Plus that crazy Georgian; Khurtzide won a title (could have been interim) at middleweight. He was seriously short for the weight at about 5 foot 5.

Panama Al Brown was a 5ft 11ins bantamweight, first gay world champion too!

Dwight Muhammad Quai is listed as 5ft7 on boxrec, 5ft5 on wiki.

Raul 'Jibaro' Perez was very tall for a bantamweight.

The little middleweight Mike Tyson who came over and did Langford. He was pretty small for the weight. He's doing time for being in the russian mafia I heard? The guy was small but he was one of the most intimidating looking blokes I've ever seen. I would have liked to have seen him brought over to fight Eubank.

Qawi
Jeff Chandler
Dave McAuley
Jake Matalala
Luigi Campaturo (sp)
Ricardo Lopez
Guillermo Jones
Sandy Saddler (longer reach than Marciano)
Tony Pep
Mitu is/was the tallest heavyweight?

In addition to Caballero, Mathebula is 5'11" which is incredibly tall for a super bantam.

What about Tommy Burns

Roco wrote: ↑24 Aug 2020, 07:46 What about Tommy Burns

Good call. He was only in the 160s when he defended his HW title vs Jack Johnson, yet even for a smw he'd be a shorty

Shhhh wrote: ↑24 Aug 2020, 09:16 Jake matlala was 4ft 10 inches

About the size of my

Arguello 5'10", held a world title down at super feather and feather. Did box at lower weights prior to that.

I think MAB turned pro down at super fly, not the tallest super bantam/feather etc but must have looked rake thin down at those weights.

gregregegg wrote: ↑23 Aug 2020, 23:21 Julius Lloyd-long is listed at 7'1 with a 90 inch reach... cant win a fight but.

Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the fxcker!

Hearns for a welter

Naseem Named at heavyweight

One time Light Flyweight contender Kazunori Tenryu was 4'9", not sure if it's a world record but the JBC recognise him as the Shortest Japanese fighter

80's lightweight Alvin Hayes was 6 ft 1 in..

Lightsoot wrote: ↑24 Aug 2020, 18:03 Naseem Named at heavyweight

Cholo_cws wrote: ↑25 Aug 2020, 05:54 80's lightweight Alvin Hayes was 6 ft 1 in..

Hayes danced a great fight (or should I say breakdance) but Jimmy Paul got on with the job of destroying him.

I once saw a 6 feet 7 light-middleweight in a under 20 bout amateur novice championship.

He lost and his name escapes me.