Incredible Expanding Boxers

[Britkid]

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.

[p4pking]

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.

[Spicoli]

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.