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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3030007, member: 289"] the thing about the heavyweight division is that it's allowed to grow. Rocky Marciano was 5-10 185. There's no one around like that now. Joe Frazier was 5-11 210 and even Mike Tyson in his prime was 5-11 216. Since Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis, all the contenders have been the size of basketball players. That doesn't mean our heroes from the old days couldn't beat them, 9looke at Jack Dempsey against Jess Willard and Joe Louis vs. Primo Carnera). But if the skill gap isn't enourmous, the bigger many will usually win. that's why they have divisions. Ah, but what about Ruiz? He's 6-2 and 268. He also had faster hands and punched harder and more accurately than Joshua who had always been very protected by his managers and was a rather mechanical fighter with a suspect chin. He likely would have been defeated by the heroes of old as well as a lot of other fighters today. [/QUOTE]