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Expert: - 10/4/2006


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thanx for the quick response.  How tall are you? Has it affected YOUR ability at all?


         -Ethan  

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6'1" about 220Lb.  It affects you more in the amateurs because of their scoring system of a jab counts the same as a knockdown.  Should never affect you in the pros.  There have been some great fighters that are short for their weight class:  Joe Frazier, Dwight Braxton, David Tua, even the Prince Naseem Hamed was not that tall.  Leonard overcame a much taller Hearns.  It all depends on the style you fight against the taller athelete that counts.

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