Evander Holyfield The only master of the cruiser’s weight who jumped to the heavyweight division and really conquers him. His achievements do not require spelling here again, but – as Usyk is fully expected – he mocked allegedly too petite, despite the fact that the accusation was leveled at him by almost every boxing hack at the opening of five years of career in massive weight.
Only when he regained the title against Riddick Bowe did these critics calmed down. It has passed even longer until the victory in 1996 over Mike Tyson, so that they closed completely.
His speed, excellent versatile game and brave meant that it matches every massive weight with which he met at the top.
Unlike many others here, he was never discouraged by huge differences in size; Holyfield was so busy, he believed in himself and focusing on his strengths that he had no time to worry about anything else.
David Haye Although Haye won the belt in the heavyweight division and defeated the world -class opposition – namely Nikolai Valuev, John Ruiz and Derek Chisora - a comprehensive defeat with Wladimir Klitschko, and later injuries mean that his achievements are often unpunished.
Of course they should not be. The monstrous weight of the cruiser, one of them, Haye was also powerful in heavyweight, even for a handful of fights. Speed and power at the beginning stared, but if Holyfield’s success should inspire Usyk, the final fall of Haye should act as a warning: the body of “Haymaker” was simply not built for the excess of most of the majority he felt he had to put on.
In addition, if Holyfield went to every fight, certainly that he could withstand the strength of the truck connecting to the chin, Haye was clearly more careful about his durability. He seemed to emphasize his performance against Klitschko. In retrospect, the approach to the devil-May-care could be better for him.
Steve Cunningham Cunningham He did not enter the division of heavyweight at the back of the shiny rule, or his appearance in the weight class did not meet any length. “USS” simply moved between two classes depending on the possibilities.
Cunningham, a clever warrior, although he would never be able to accept enormous promoters or networks, he was technically solid in all aspects of the fight game. For brokers, Power was a kind of name, but for his opponents he was burdensome. Cunningham has never seen the heart in gathering on pounds, and even when he prevailed over 44 pounds, he presented Tyson Fury of all kinds of problems.
Cunningham showed, even during losing (often controversial on the cards), great massive weights can be maneumed, thought out and sent. But by drilling by Fury in seven, he also showed that people entering the division without the physical advantages of their opponents usually stand up to the hill.
Tomasz Adamek Thirdly, only to Holyfield and Haye as the most successful recognized massive cruiser. There were a title in Airy Massive, the Pole won the belt in the circuit weight before he entered the land of giants, throwing his countryman from the surplus, Andrew Golota in 2009.
Before he questioned the leader of the Vitali Klitschko division two years later, he won a shot, being too good for Jason Estrada, Chris Arreola and Michael Grant. Adamek, a bit like Holyfield, understood how to be physically smaller and faster shadow, he does not always have to be a disadvantage, because he defeated good people, often in his own game.
Ultimately, when he met with a giant, which was huge, clever, talented and strongly striking, Adamek could not compete. Kliczko stopped him in 10 one -sided rounds. Adamek, however, remained a lasting element in the rankings for a few years later.
Tony Bellew Something like anomalies, because his massive weight adventure consisted of two wins on the above -mentioned and best David Haye. However, it is worth paying attention to his approach to the battle.
It is too straightforward not to mention a lack of respect to write back the achievements of Bellew in heavyweight. Because everyone wrote him before the first Haye meeting. Many, including BN, thought his jump to Haye was hazardous.
However, in the best form of his career in the circuitous weight and memories of the senior sparring session with Haye, Bellew and coach Dave Coldwell, he formulated the perfect game plan. Although undoubtedly supported by the leg Haye almost slammed in the middle of the fight, Bellew has already illustrated what can be achieved by patient and certain negation of the opponent’s strengths.
The rematch, when Bellew destroyed the remains of Haye, additionally illustrated how a smaller warrior could reveal a larger one.
Juan Carlos Gomez Another fate that you can remember. Gomez, southern clever, constantly grew into a heavyweight ward after a successful period on the cruisers. But before he faced Vitali Kliczko in 2009, he was much beyond his best fighting weight.
After the smell is in nine rounds, Gomez – a unique boxer – said about the size of Kliczko, which is too much an obstacle to scaling. Most importantly, maybe Gomez was too respected from this size from the beginning of the competition, preferred to stay away from danger and hope – victims – to open later.
He never came. Klitschko simply found a rhythm and a familiar comfort zone and pounded the resistance of Gomez, which was not physically prepared for survival. The Cubans won a strange noteworthy victory in the banners department, but generally stated that what caused that in the circuitous weight he was too often absent in the land of Giants.
Axis Kalambay at PTS 15 Iran Barkley Octabar 23 1987; Palazzo dello Sport, Livorno, Italy Kalambay’s Sumbay is often overlooked when historians call the best medium weights in the era of post-Marvin Hagler. But when someone thinks that Kalambay defeated Herola Graham (twice), Mike McCallum, Steve Collins and Iran Barkley, it is clear that he should not. The Italian silky idol was Muhammad Ali and against the free, gritty and strenuous (and let’s not forget, very good) Barkley, Kalambay showed his extensive repertoire in the last fight for the title WBA Middle Wweight to plan 15 rounds. More educational than exhilarating, Kalambay shows exactly why it was very arduous to beat to raise a free belt.
Do you know? The title of WBA was deprived of Hagler after he signed a contract for the fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of a compulsory pretender, Herol Graham. Kalambay upset Graham in the fight for the title of EBU – which was a crazy fight for a “bomber”, in retrospect – to get a shot in a free crown.
Watch out for: The operate of a left stabbaya is arduous to determine. At the end of the fight, Barkley is bruised, bloody and well beaten.
Boxing weight classes – except for natural growth – is rarely a recipe for success, as the aged maxim was revealed, “good” UN always beats a good diminutive “Un”. In October 1937, a 21-year-old warrior from Deptford mentioned Tommy Martin He decided to overthrow the general principle.
Less than two years earlier, Tommy was a welterweight. But now he was tailored to a heavyweight with Jim Wilde of Swansea, who weighed as much as 15. 5 pounds. According to press reports, Martin was two lighter, but his actual weight could be even lighter. “In the best part of my career I have never been more than in medium weight,” he said later. “I used to wear a belt around the waist equipped with lead weights to look heavier.”
Even more surprising is that Tommy was successful as a ponderous weight, winning the nickname “Great Britain Brown Bomber”, of course, a great bow to Joe Louis. Jim Wilde was heavily outlined by 10 rounds in Empress Hall to give Martin the first of many wins in ponderous weight. Tommy would prove that he is one of the best in the country in delicate and ponderous weight, but unfortunately as a man with a mixed race he could not box the British title due to the absurd “colorful bar” BBBOFC, which required the players from the players born in Great Britain with two white parents.
Born in reading in January 1916 in the White English Mother and Jamaican Father, Tommy moved with his family to Deptford in South London in 1917. At the age of 14 he escaped from home and got a job as a boy from boxing Billy Stewart, ultimately becoming a fighter. This and later experience at the Billy Wood stand gave Martin precise knowledge about boxing.
He had his first official professional in 1933, at the age of 17 and quickly developed a great CV won, from time to time a failure. His scalps in Welter and Middle Weighing included high -quality men, such as Harry Mason, Jack Lewis, Paul Schaeffer, Bill Hardy and Moe Moss. Until 1938 and 1939, Tommy’s Fighting Wage oscillated between a delicate and ponderous weight when he gathered a 15-handing series of wins with wins on how Frank Hough, Jack Hyams, Tino Rolando, Al Robinson and the future British heavyweight champion Jack London (to whom he gave the third Stone).
At the beginning of 1940, Tommy went to America for a campaign organized by manager Harry Levene. He made his debut in Los Angeles in April against the highly rated Bob Nestelle, who stopped Lee Ramage and King Levinsky. Martin shook his knee in the fight and lost points, but a month later Ko’dell in return. Another noteworthy victory from Tommy’s brief spell in the USA was Pat Valentino, who later challenged Ezzard Charles about the world -heavy crown. However, Martin’s most impressive victory was above Buddy Knox (then 102-11-8), who defeated the former world king Bob Olin. Tommy developed Knox in September 1940, but was overtaken in return.
Martin’s career seemed to sail on her American route. He had only three fights and lost them all: a point defeat in returning with Jacek London, stopping Freddie Mills and KO in the first round at the hands of the previous victim of Al Robinson. Tommy’s concentration turned to the war service. He served with RAF and then to a sales jacket, but was wounded by a torpedo explosion and hospitalized in Montreal. He lost, and then, after two operations, he regained his sight before he joined American maritime infantry soldiers. After leaving the services, Tommy moved to Hollywood and founded the gym, but later qualified as a physiotherapist and opened his practice in Novel York. After the wedding, he settled on the Virgin Islands, where he worked as a prison governor until his retirement. He died in 1987.
Marco Antonio Barrera in PTS 12 Johnny Tapia~ November 2, 2002; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV This is not classic, but it is worth visiting again as a reminder of these two irresistible fighters. Barrera was probably the best at that time, while taping, try his best, he could not conjure up his highest form. Perhaps this partly applies to Barrera’s perfection, so natural, so bright in the ring, which did not allow the aging taps to be abutment. But Tapia, winning his first seven -digit payment day, showed a lot of classes. Ultimately, Barerra won the results of 118-110 twice and 116-112 to preserve his world championships in a featherweight.
Do you know? At the back of the shorts, Barrera was the name “tapia”. It was not, as it was often, a tribute to Johnny, but instead a tribute to his mother, whose maiden name was tapia.
Watch out for: Changing tactics from both. Tapia effectively falls into the opening round only so that Barrera changes the attack line. In the second half of the competition Tapia, a witness that it is sent, forces the exchange inside to refer to a larger (but not sufficient) success.
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