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I would like to know what would happen if there is a cruiserweight division back in the 1960s and Dick Tiger would jump to the cruiserweight to fight the best in any fighters of that division. How would Tiger fare against cruiserweights?

There wasnt a cruiserweight division in the 60s so which cruiserweight fighters of the 60s would he fight? Id imagine he would do well against 99% of fighters under the HW limit in any period.

Since there were no other cruiserweights he would immediately become Exalted Supreme Champion and Lord of the Cruisers. Big Fish...Small Pond theory.

Well Tiger against Quawi at 190 would have been interesting... But Tiger was always very fit so I doubt he would have ever gone up that far... Quawi had quite a belly on him when he was a Cruiser...

Tiger was small for a lightheavyweight; he was way too small to fight at crusierweight. Actually Super Middleweight may have been ideal for tiger had the weight class existed back then.

silkov wrote:Well Tiger against Quawi at 190 would have been interesting... But Tiger was always very fit so I doubt he would have ever gone up that far... Quawi had quite a belly on him when he was a Cruiser...

And remember when he fought Foreman!??!

Would have been interesting.There were a number of guys in the late 60's who probably could have made 190lbs, Quarry, Cooper, Patterson, Mildenberger, Ellis. And I'm sure Bob Foster would have made the jump too so I'm not so sure how Tiger would have done.