US Boxers

[bushido_man96]

I thought that this was kind of interesting: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/features/fifty

[tallgeese]

Pretty neat find!

[joesteph]

This is a good find. I come from NJ, so I put the mouse over it, and the focus was on Mickey Walker, whose weight was usually under 170lbs, but "became a legitimate heavyweight contender," fighting to a draw a man who outweighed him by 29lbs (169 to 198) in 1931.

I don't know boxing regulations, so I wonder if he'd be permitted to have such a fight today--that he wouldn't make the weight class despite his talent.

Something else, too . . . The boxing career that Walker had likely meant that you could fight in a heavier weight class, but a heavier man couldn't choose to fight in a lighter one.

[bushido_man96]

I'm not sure, but there may be more weight classes now than there were then, too. So, he probably would have been in a class closer to his weight.

[The BB of C]

That's pretty cool. I'm interested to see who other states might have.

[jackmcmanus21]

nice find...ESPN really does great work on pieces like this