Legendary boxing matches – Legendary boxers: The heaviest heavyweight world champion in history

Author: Zizi

There are matches, which are never to be forgotten, and there are boxing icons, who are going to stay with us for eternity.

If we talk about the king category, we usually talk about the punching power of the athletes or their boxing knowledge, maybe about their footwork. This time we look at their weight, yes, we know the heavyweight division is the playground of the big guys, but there was a champion, who was a real giant among the other huge men.

Nikolai Valuev was a Russian world champion, whose size was more than impressive. He is 213 cm tall, his championship weight was 144.1 kg, and his largest weight during his career was 158 kg.

Fun fact: Valuev was 72 kg heavier than his opponent Alarim Uysal in 1997 (Valuev won via TKO their match in the second round). For the record, 72 kg is the weight of the middleweight division…

Source of the article: boxingjunkie.usatoday.com