Incredible Expanding Fighters
Gives a list of some of boxing's biggest weight gainers (fat and/ or muscle).
You'll never guess who is no.1 :rolleyes: :-X
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Incredible Expanding Fighters
Gives a list of some of boxing's biggest weight gainers (fat and/ or muscle).
You'll never guess who is no.1 :rolleyes: :-X
Butterbean should not count on that list. He just got fatter. :)
Butterbean shouldn't be on any list as he was a joke and never fit to compete over 4 rounds.
Cool find though! I think it's a bit misleading to list HW's highest weights, as if coming in fat and out of shape counts for something. Take having Iran Barkley as 2, who did he ever fight above 200 pounds? Guillermo Jones must be one they missed, I know he has fought at 147!
Pacquiao, Duran, Toney and Hearns are the most incredible to me, in that order I think.
Dingaan Thobela turned pro as a Featherweight; won his last world title at Super Middleweight and fought Bute weighing 181lbs.
Georges Carpentier claimed a national title at all eight classic weight divisions, and has a verified claim of European titles from Lightweight up to Heavyweight. And most famously he was in the first Million Dollar grossing fight with then Heavyweight Champion of the World Jack Dempsey.
There must be a heap of old time fighters who beat a lot of those guys come to think. It has Armstrong and Robinson on the list, but everyone else has fought in the last twenty years or so.
Sam Langford and Bob Fitzsimmons are two I could think of as well, but who knows what those guys actually weighed is another point perhaps? I imagine a lot of early HW challengers would have scaled in way way under 200 pounds.
Yeh heavyweights are deceiving as far as weight gain from lower divisions. You can turn pro light like Moorer or Byrd etc and have success or just start light, get fat and tough and need to pay bills like Everett Bigfoot Martin or Ross Thompson and about 1001 others.
James Toney, Mike McCallum, Buddy McGirt and Prince Naseem Hamed. I remember watching Buddy fight Meldrick Taylor and he was RIPPED. Naz is a portly little guy too. Chunky. Crazy how those guys get so sloppy when they r done. The weight cutting gets them every time.
It's an interesting idea but there's no way it's a complete list since as others have pointed out, there are some old time fighters who have done more. Also it's a bit misleading because someone like Pac turned pro at such a young age that obviously he would have gained more weight than someone who turned pro at the age of 21 instead of 16.