Can you name the top ten of tallest world heavy weight boxing champions in history?
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Depends on your interpretation of heavyweight champion; certainly modern times and the plethora of sanctioning bodies that now inhabit boxing mean there are many who claim to be heavyweight champion.\n\nIf we keep the discussion to fighters who've held either the linear title, which is what preceded the fragmentation of the championship we now endure, alongside the modern day WBC, IBF, WBA and latterly WBO belts then I believe the answer is something like this.\n\n1 - Nicolay Valuev - WBA Champion\nOfficial heights vary on the giant from Russia, but 7ft 1 is the much proferred figure.\n\n2 - Primo Carnera - approx 6ft 8-10\nBriefly champion, the Italian was a huge man at a time when the average male height was significantly shorter than present standards.\n\n3 - Vitaly Klitschko - approx 6ft 8\nBecame champion with a victory over some mediocre opponents following his gutsy if failed attempt to dethrone Lennox Lewis.\n\n4 - Henry Akinwande - approx 6ft 7\n\n5 - Lennox Lewis - approx 6-6\n\n6 - Wladimir Klitschko - approx 6-6\n\n7 - Ernie Terrell - approx 6-6\nWBA Champ\n\n8 -  Jess Willard - big cowboy.\n\n9 - George Foreman 6-4\n\n10- Frank Bruno 6-4
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1. De-Fen Yao from China stands 7'8 1/2" \n(Yao Defen was born in Shucha Town of Liuan City in Shuchen County, Anhui Province in 1972. )\n2. Sandy Allen from Shelbyville IN (USA) at 7' 7  1/4" \n3. Maria Feliciana Santos (Brazil) at 7' 4 1/2" \n\nAlso one to remember from the past:\nTrijintje Keever who passed away in 1633 from The Hague  supposedly stood at 8' 4.4"\n\nThe worlds tallest woman (in history) Trijntje Keever (1616-1633) traveled to The Hague in 1625  with the traveling circus. She was at that time 2 meters tall. She would return to The Hague every year until she died of Cancer at age 17 in 1633. At that moment she was 2m55 tall.
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5. John Cena\n4. Big Show\n3. Jeff Jarrett\n2. Hulk Hogan\n1. Rey Mysterio (A cruiserweight as a Heavyweight Champion)
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Pound for Pound, these are the guys:\n\n1) Floyd Mayweather Jr. - WBC Super Lightweight Champ\n2) Winky Wright - Undisputed Super Welterweight Champ\n3) Manny Pacquiao - Super Featherweight\n4) Marco Barrera -  WBC Super Featherweight\nChamp\n5) Ricky Hatton IBF - Super Lightweight Champ\n6) Jermain Taylor - Undisputed Middleweight Champ\n7) Bernard Hopkins - Light Heavyweight \n8) Oscar De La Hoya - WBC Super Welterweight Champ\n9) Antonio Margarito - WBO Welterweight Champ\n10) Joe Calzaghe - WBO/IBF Super Middleweight Champ\n\nMayweather is #1....No question about it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_suspension_bridges
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OH don't get me started.....Boxing needs to be "blown up" and rebuilt from scratch. There's little wonder why it continues to lose fan interest to sports like UFC, but that's another issue...\n\nThere are SEVENTEEN weight classes with 4 major sanctioning bodies, which means there could be as many 68 "champions" Totally ridiculous!\n\nThese need to be cut down to a more sensible number, similar to the eleven divisions that are contested in the Olympic Games and even this might need some refining, I'm not sure the Super Heavyweight class is really needed...\n\nSuper heavyweight 91+ kg (200+ lb) \nHeavyweight 91 kg (200 lb) \nLight heavyweight 81 kg (178 lb) \nMiddleweight 75 kg (165 lb) \nWelterweight 69 kg (152 lb) \nLight welterweight 64 kg (141 lb) \nLightweight 60 kg (132 lb) \nFeatherweight 57 kg (125 lb) \nBantamweight 54 kg (119 lb) \nFlyweight 51 kg (112 lb) \nLight flyweight 48 kg (106 lb)\n\nAnd finally, I'd like to see the sanctioning bodies be reduced from 4 to 2 and get rid of Don King!
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HHH becaues he is the 10 times World Champ...
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I have no clue, b/c there have been tall and short ww champs in the past.....i guess if you have some time, take the last 10 welterweight champs, and average their heights and waist and see what you come up with.....that might be the only logical way of doing this.
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I agree Marvin Hagler had the best chin in boxing, the only time he got wobbled was against Hearns for a split second in the first round of their terrific fight and he went in with some decent punchers. He was never knocked down properly the only time he took a count was when he slipped against Roldan.
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I think you mean tallest.\n\nRobert Wadlow 8'11 3/4"
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1 Roger Federer \n2 Rafael Nadal \n3 David Nalbandian \n4 Ivan Ljubicic\n5 Andy Roddick \n6 Nikolay Davydenko \n7 Tommy Robredo \n8 James Blake \n9 Fernando Gonzalez \n10 Gaston Gaudio
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George Mikan.  6 Titles with the Lakers.  The first true Big Man.\n\nTough to compare guys from past eras though.  Larry Bird is probably the best overall of the modern era.
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I don't  no who you think is the first but i believe the greatest are\nMohamed Ali\nMike Tyson\nRay Sugar leonar\nCarlos Monzon\nFloyd Matwheter junior\nFrom all times¡¡
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The tallest person ever was: Robert Wadlow At the time of his death in 1940 he was 8', 11.1" tall and weighed 439 pounds making him the world’s tallest person in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records, surpassing the record previously held by an 8', 4" inch Irishman who died in 1877.\n \n\nTallest Man - Living in 2006\n   \nWHO: \nXi Shun \nWHAT: \n2 m 36.1 cm\n(7 ft 8.95 in) \nWHERE: \nChifeng, Inner Mongolia, China. \nWHEN: \nJanuary 15, 2005 \n  \nXi Shun (China, b. 1951), measured 7 ft 8.95 in (2 m 36.1 cm) as a result of six measurements taken on January 15, 2005, at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China.\n\n\nBeating the previous holder Radhouane Charbib (Tunisia) by just 2 mm (0.07 in), Xi Shun claims that his height was normal for his age until he was 16. As a comparison, his father stood at 5 ft 10.8 in (1.8 m) and his mother was 5 ft 2.8 in (1.6 m) tall.\n\nIn his late teens, he experienced a growth spurt that, while not normal, was seemingly without any cause. Doctors who examined him in 2005 discovered no evidence of gigantism or acromegaly, and could not explain why he grew so tall so fast (it took him just seven years to reach his record height).\n\nFollowing a career in the Army – he was recruited for his basketball skills! – he returned to Inner Mongolia and works as a herdsman. He also hires himself out for publicity stunts for a local restaurant and tailor.\n\nHe currently resides with his father and brother at Chifeng.\n \n\n\nTallest Woman - Living in 2006\n   \nWHO: \nSandy Allen \nWHAT: \n2.31 m (7 ft 7 in) \nWHERE: \nIndianapolis, Indiana, USA \nWHEN: \nAs of 1999 \n  \nSandy Allen was a 2.95-kg (6.5-lb) baby, and her abnormal growth began soon after her birth in June 1955. By the age of 10 she stood 1.905 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, and was 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) by 16 years old. Sandy had a dream to break free of a world, that she felt she had outgrown. In her first letter to Guinness World Records in 1974 she wrote, "I would like to get to know someone that is approximately my height. It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life." The accolade did help to bring about a reversal of fortunes for the Indiana secretary. First, there was an offer from film director Federico Fellini to take a role in his film Casanova in 1975, and then her first date with a 7-ft Illinois man. On July 14, 1977, she went into hospital for a pituitary gland operation to stop further growth. Nowadays poor circulation and weak leg muscles mean she is dependent on a wheel chair.
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Robert Wadlow is recorded as being the tallest person in the world, 8 feet 11 inches. However, the Bible records Goliath of Gath, a Philistine as being about 10 feet tall.
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1. Wladimir Klitschko IBF\n2. Nicolay Valuev   WBA\n3. Shannon Briggs  WBO\n4. Oleg Maskaev  WBC
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ewww check guinness world records , 800 lbs. ?