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It is entirely within the rules for all four boxing organizations with championships (WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO) for anyone of ANY weight to be the heavyweight champion of the world.

Muhammad Ali beat the heavyweight champions of the world in boxing matches at least twice (Sonny Liston and George Foreman). When did Bruce Lee ever beat the heavyweight champion of the world in a boxing match?

If Evo was still around, she would have closed this thread already lol

I lurked at this forum for several years before I created this account in 2021. I remember there used to be an active moderator here with the screen name of Evo. She would close a lot of threads. She authored the thread "Guidelines for speculative and political topics" thread that it stickied...

Because Muhammad Ali was the heavyweight champion of the world. If Bruce Lee wanted to know that he could beat everyone else in a boxing match, Lee needed to beat the heavyweight champion of the world. Lee failed to do so. If he could've, he would've.

Why didn't Bruce Lee box and defeat Muhammad Ali, the contemporary heavyweight champion of the world? Because he couldn't. Neither the WBC nor the WBA would give Bruce Lee a title shot against Muhammad Ali because Lee was not worthy of a title shot. Nope. That's not a good example at all...

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I think it is answerable. If you think that the fact that nobody 166 pounds or lighter has ever beaten the heavyweight champion of the world in a boxing match is not proof positive that a good big man will beat a good little man, then how do you explain the fact that nobody 166 pounds or...

So far the only person who seemed to sort of agree with me was Ibix. Everyone else is arguing with me. So nobody thinks that I have a point in the OP of this thread?

I don't think that it's a law of nature that the big guy will always win either. I think that you (and many other people on this thread) are not paying close enough attention to the adage. The adage is "A good big man will beat a good little man". You and other people are pretending like the...

Although I think that Bruce Lee might have weighed 166 pounds or less, Bruce Lee is not a knock against my thesis. Bruce Lee never beat the heavyweight champion of the world in a boxing match.

You are probably only saying that Mike Tyson's opponents were visibly bigger than he was because Tyson's opponents were taller than he was. Your mistake is to be thinking that the adage "A good big man will beat a good little man" is all about height instead of weight. If you think of the...

The experiment is 141+ years of boxing history in which anyone weighing 166 pounds or less is eligible to win the heavyweight championship of the world but never does.

But there is no rule against a 166 holding the heavyweight championship of the world. No 166 fought as a challenger for the heavyweight championship of the world because one has to earn a title shot. No 166 ever earned a title shot because a good big man will beat a good little man. I don't...

Most professional boxers are in the lighter weight classes, not in the heavyweight division. The biggest money in boxing has always been in the heavyweight division. So the lighter weight professional boxers would definitely want to be the heavyweight champion of the world. That is where the...