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Tall Successful Lightweights?

Dimbis

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Have there been any lightweights that are tall? My mind is blanking. I feel like I’ve heard of more featherweights that are tall, like Giga Chikadze is 6’ and Holloway is almost 6’.

Who’s a tall lightweight that had a lot of success? Dan Hooker is 6’ as well but he’s not necessarily crazy crazy successful.
 
6'3 Jailin Turner and 6'3 Joel Alvarez are both top 15 LWs. But the issue both of them have is getting taken down, Turner lost his last 2 fights against gamrot and moicano by being taken down and Alvarez last loss was getting taken down and smashed by Arman. So the taller LWs usually aren't good at stuffing takedowns
 
Have there been any lightweights that are tall? My mind is blanking. I feel like I’ve heard of more featherweights that are tall, like Giga Chikadze is 6’ and Holloway is almost 6’.

Who’s a tall lightweight that had a lot of success? Dan Hooker is 6’ as well but he’s not necessarily crazy crazy successful.
Usman Nurmagomedov defends his title in three days.
 
I saw you put Giga as a 6’ fighter.. I have met him on a couple occasions at events. I’m 6’3 that dude is 100% lying about his height if that’s what he’s listed as 😂
 
James Vick. 6'3" lightweight and started his UFC career off with a 9-1 run.

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Corey hill before he died was a legit 6 foot 3 maybe 4. Sadly he had the nasty leg break but he seemd like he may have had a shot.
 
True, the names that came to my mind are Oliveira and Ferguson but they're not even 6 ft.
 
Have there been any lightweights that are tall? My mind is blanking. I feel like I’ve heard of more featherweights that are tall, like Giga Chikadze is 6’ and Holloway is almost 6’.

Who’s a tall lightweight that had a lot of success? Dan Hooker is 6’ as well but he’s not necessarily crazy crazy successful.

Was going to name him but your summation is fairly correct, he is putting together a nice run at the moment though.
 
Was going to name him but your summation is fairly correct, he is putting together a nice run at the moment though.
I feel like if he wins against Gaethje they’ll try to spin the whole BMF belt as leverage for a title shot since Dana already said he wants Arman to fight his way back.
 
Conor compensates not being so tall by being extremely successful.
 
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