why were there no tall heavyweights......

[StarshipTrooper]

the question was why were there no tall heavy weights not why are people taller today why don't you read the original post ****smack listen learn just like all your posts you are right and anyone opposing your views is wrong sweep your own porch before you try to sweep mine or cardinalbucks for that matter

Hey Einstein, this was the post I was specifically responding to >>>>>

and i don't discount that selective breeding among human populations (mostly women chosing taller men,) would cause the population to get taller. it's going to be a hard phenomenon to study, but anecdotally i can't see how anybody could discount the notion that women like tall men, and men like tall women, tall people seek out other tall people, and short people have a tougher time getting laid. that is going to lead to the population becoming taller.

Want to try that again Gilligan? Reading not your strong suit huh?

[violaandme]

**** Bihatch my mommies basement I own my very own house and a good chunk of property on the hood canal I am 37 and temperarily retired but if I wanna live in the cascades I suppose I should start working again or sell one of my places

[violaandme]

what you must live in Mortin or Orting thats about how open your mind is Ignore me like you do logic you can't win an argument with facts or even your BS so you fall on insults and ignore wisdom and logic do you even go outside at night or does your 15 year old girl neighbor make you wet your pants out of fear

[violaandme]

I thought you were ignoring me ****sniffer do you bottle your farts so you can sniff the during thunderstorms and ease you worries

[violaandme]

Ok one last post and I will not harp on it anymore poet I took your advice and googled coal consumption and world wide it has doubled since 1980 and we burn more than 20 times the amount of coal as we did in 1900 just thought I would throw that in there we have many alternative sources of energy but we need much much more energy now than then

[Tommo1]

Dude no, stick to NSB. If Tyson was any taller he would lose his quickness and evasiveness, one of Tyson's greatest strengths was his height. Cus made him carry heavy bags to stop him from growing taller.

Tyson was physically perfect, he only fell short mentally.

Kid Dynamite;

You couldn't be more wrong!

First, it can be shown easily with stats (I'll direct you if you like) that Tyson struggled more and more with his opponents the taller they got. In fact Tyson never KO'd a single opponent that wasn't a bum that was taller that 6'4".

Today the heights of the opponents are on average taller and much higher in the top end circumstances as well.

So we can see how a little extra height could help to match his opponents he would face today.

As for the extra 15lbs of weight which would serve to fill out that little extra height nicely, you say it would slow him down too much to be effective with his style and other assets... But you completely neglected to mention the fact that THE BIGGER OPPONENTS HE WOULD FACE TODAY ARE ALSO ON AVERAGE SLOWER than their smaller counterparts of yesteryear.

On average the fighters of today are faster than yesterday weight being equal but obviously speed declines with size in general.

I think a heftier Tyson would be just as adequate to compete with todays competition given his other prime qualities as he was against those of his time. Dangerously competitive that is!

[Tommo1]

Another "POET exposed" moment where he tries to discredit a proven statistic.

Most everybody in this "back water country" I live in knows that steroid and growth hormone are used in livestock which comes to us via milk and meat and has definitely had an effect on us, most strikingly noticed in young girls growing **** at younger and younger ages and getting their rags.

Your living in the 17th century POET!

[BattlingNelson]

More people box today than ever before it is numerical fact. The percentage of the population that do box may have fallen in the US but in total it is still greater.

Do you have a source?

[Tommo1]

I have been involved in a conversation on another forum in the past where we discussed this and it turned out participation has gone up and down several times throughout the last century but it was clear that globally boxing has never had higher participation and I think it was rivalled in the US only around the great depression era from memory.

The whole list of years and numbers were laid out.

I googled boxing participation and there are loads of streams to look at. Find them yourself.

[BattlingNelson]

I have been involved in a conversation on another forum in the past where we discussed this and it turned out participation has gone up and down several times throughout the last century but it was clear that globally boxing has never had higher participation and I think it was rivalled in the US only around the great depression era from memory.

The whole list of years and numbers were laid out.

I googled boxing participation and there are loads of streams to look at. Find them yourself.

Please link the sources you used yourself as basis for your postulat.

Otherwise it's just bullcrap.