Fights with the largest size disparities

[nac386]

Smaller guys have ventured into higher weight classes throughout the years with mixed success. I was trying to think of a few fights in which a guy was severely outsized, be it by weight or height. Specifically, fights that occurred outside of the heavyweight division.

Here are a few examples:

Cotto vs Martinez. Their height and weight aren't dramatically different (3 inches, 10-15 pounds), but Sergio just looked huge next to Cotto. Cotto stopped Sergio late in the fight.

Duran vs Hearns. Hearns enjoyed a 6 inch height advantage. Hearns knocked out Duran early in the fight.

Pacquiao vs Margarito. Margarito had a 5 inch height advantage, unsure of weight. Pacquiao used superior speed and quickness to win in a brutal UD.

Just for fun, Haye vs Valuev. Valuev had 10 inches and almost 100 pounds on Haye. Haye outboxed Valuev and won a UD.

What are some other fights that had a huge size disparity and how did the smaller fighter fare?

 

[PivotPunch]

Chagaev vs Valuev 5'11 vs 6'11 or so

Valuev also fought an Argentinian journeyman who's 5'10

Joe louis vs carnera. Notice the block on which louis stands. carnera was 6'6 and ripped 260lbs he was the size of a modern SHW

honorable mentions for Joe Louis: 6'6 250lbs Buddy Baer and 6'4 255lbs Abe Simon all these guys were the size of modern SHWs


5'6 ex LHW and CW champ Dwight Muhammad Quawi vs George Foreman



And even more extreme and earler Sam Langford who went from lightweight to welterweight to middleweight to LHW and finally to HW Quawi was short but huge but Langford was an ex LW fighting at HW and he was comeptitive at HW to say the least. There's a reason he is in most top 100 lists of ATG boxers

His biggest opponent I know of was 6'8 Bill Tate who weighed between 230 and 240 during his career and that was even before the Louis era he was a giant

 

[martinez505]

some good ones

 

[burningspear]

Margarito was never to look the same again

 

[Confucamus]

 

[Jyodog]

Fun Fact: that last pic is from the actual fight

George Foreman 257 lb
Evander Holyfield 208 lb

 

[Francis Rossi]

Yeah, heavyweight's too easy. When you had Tyson at 5'10", most of the division towered over him.

 

[Steve-French]

I know this isn't huge compared to what the ts listed, but it is still impressive imo especially for a lighter weight class. Sugar Ray Robinson stepped up to LHW from MW to fight the LHW champion Joey Maxim. Robinson also started his career as a FW

Here's the tale of the tape below.

Robinson - Maxim
age 31 y - age 30 y
weight 159 lbs- 175 lbs
height 5 ft 11" - 6 ft 1"
reach 75.5 " - 75.5"

 

[Confucamus]

Yeah, heavyweight's too easy. When you had Tyson at 5'10", most of the division towered over him.

True story

 

[clashnat]

Margarito was never to look the same again

That was my first thought too. Is that really from the beating Pacquiao gave him or something else?

 

[Confucamus]

 

[Hagler]

Some dick unzipping joke seems mandatory in this thread.

Oh, and the Willie Pep vs Sandy Saddler series.

That and quite a few Jimmy Wilde fights, especially the one he fought against bantamweights (Pete Herman outweighted him 119 to 110 pounds).

 

[MC Paul Barman]

 

[MC Paul Barman]

 

[Sir Punchalot]

Jesus Christ.

 

[PivotPunch]

5'6 or '7 Shawn Porter vs 6'2 Russel jordan. The funny thing is that Jordan used to fight at WW while Jordan was on the way down from SMW to fighting at WW like he does today and the 2 met at LMW/154lbs




Ex CW champ Guillermo Jones used to fight at 147lbs, he's 6'4

 

[burningspear]

That was my first thought too. Is that really from the beating Pacquiao gave him or something else?

Too tough for his own good, Pac unleashed a hellacious shellacking which left Tony disfigured and partially sighted.

 

[Cheese]

 

[Flinty]

How about Arturo Gatti vs Joey Gamache?

Gatti almost decapitated that poor guy.

There was some kind of controversy with the weigh-ins as well.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]