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Bob Sapp literally destroyed the lifelong kickboxing Ernesto Hoost who trained his whole life for this, while he starting kickboxing LATER in life. What's the difference between them? Ernesto has way more experience, yet got brutally beaten by Sapp. The difference is Ernesto was 6'2 and 238 pounds while Bob Sapp was 6'5 and 350 pounds.
Sure guys like Ali, Marciano, and Tyson beat guys bigger than themselves, but the size and weight difference was not enough. Liston wasn't significantly bigger enough than ali, + he was 45 when they fought. None of Tyson or Marciano opponents outweighed or outsized them enough to significantly shut them down. Both men also had crazy punching power too
But what if their opponents were the size of Denis Cyplenkov or Bob Sapp and 300+ ibs of bone and muscle tissue? When the weight difference starts to be 40 pounds then it gets harder and harder to overcome with skills..
Nikolai Valuev would be a tin can if he was 6'5. Valuev was "good" thanks to his size and weighet, he would be average at best without it.