Quote Originally Posted by rjj tszyu View Post
Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
I think he ended up as a cruiser because he was young.

He had to stop boxing as a light heavy in the amatuers when he hit his twentys, couldn't make the weight anymore.

I think he's been out growing cruiser for a while now, but the closer he was getting to belts/unification etc the longer he was going to stay in that division. Might as well see the job through when you're almost there.
You've hit the nail on the head there!
And personally I think that it's ludicrous to suggest that cruiser weights are simply taking refuge there and avoiding light heavy or heavy weight...

on average most weight classes have a range of 6-7 pounds.

Cruiserweight has a range of 15 pounds... 15 pounds, twice that or more of most other divisions... it's insane to suggest that out of a range of 15 pounds, that fighters only box there to take refuge from heavyweight and light heavyweight and don't just naturally fall there.

It also strikes me as contradictory to say elsewhere that cruisers like david haye etc are too small to make good heavyweights and then criticise them for not fighting at heavyweight from the start of their career.