Will there ever be a 6ft tall and under HW Champ ever again?

[Spicoli]

Sitting here racking my brain and it's hard to imagine. Not that shorter types cannot 'compete' it's just that most heavies today are just bigger, taller and a dime a dozen. Though as Lyle ^ mentioned, certainly not better. It's just sheer numbers of 6'2 to 6'7 guys walking out of every small town and random Countries all over the globe. I remember in the later 90's of course top heavyweights were more centered in the U.S so there were a few pundits trying to push a 'super heavyweight' division ironically when we started seeing guys like Michael Grant, Gonzalez, McCline, Vitali and Wlad came around. The cream rose to the top there on skills not pure size. Should we see another 5'11 or less fighter with the speed and ferocity of a Tyson no doubt we'll see another champion but until then it's hard enough just to think of one who has made any kind of run at it at all. Sherman Williams . There was a Russian built like a brick shat house who lost to Jennings last year who came back and went on a decent run but disappeared. May take another guy moving up from cruiserweight but the height remains mostly.

[brocktonblockbust]

What about a slickster like Chris Byrd in his prime?

[Master]

There is more chance of having an under 6ft heavyweight champion than seeing under 15 stone champion ever again.

[ykdadamaja]

There is more chance of having an under 6ft heavyweight champion than seeing under 15 stone champion ever again.

Well, due to evolution, I happen to think that seeing a guy at 6ft being 210 lbs and over is normal and healthy. Which raises another question: Should the weight limits be adjusted?

[El Kabong]

What about a slickster like Chris Byrd in his prime?

Good call, or even RJJ even though he won a trinket title at heavyweight. I believe there is more likelihood of a fighter of that ilk accomplishing great feats in the division than us seeing another Tyson. Let's be real, Mike Tyson was a freak of nature physically and devastating in that ring...he was like a bulldog. I think there's a better chance somebody will have the athletic ability and mental tenacity to hone a winning skill set rather than just be born into a body that fits a style which matches up with a trainer who was waiting for that specific fighter.


I think the odds are we'll see a Floyd Mayweather Jr type of heavyweight before we see another Tyson type of heavyweight....the focus of the smaller heavyweight will HAVE to be defense first (yes yes I know, everyone will say "Boring fighter is boring" but the key to boxing as much as knocking out the other guy is not getting hit in return and people need to fucking accept that is the KEY part of the sport).

[holmcall]

No

[El Kabong]

No

If heavyweights only ever got taller and taller and bigger and heavier then why so many smaller fighters after 'The Pottawatomie Giant' Jess Willard? Why was Buddy Baer never able to become the champ? Why were so many smaller fighters so much better? Dempsey, Charles, Walcott, La Starza, Joe Frazier, Floyd Patterson, Mike Tyson, etc.


I do think that smaller heavyweights will really make a comeback once guys who are a little taller 6'1-6'3 learn how to properly fight small and give off a smaller target the taller fighters have to reach for and then make them pay on the counter, or keep those tall guys on the back foot and punish them high and low and just never let them get a punch off that has any leverage to it.

[Batman]

You boys wanna be careful with what you are saying,if the wrong person reads this we could soon be looking at a 6ft champion of the super cruiserweight division