Tallest boxer
- Who
- Unknown
- When
- 01 January 0001
The tallest boxer to fight professionally was Gogea Mitu (b. 1914) of Romania in 1935. He was 2.23m 7ft 4in and weighed 148kg 327lb. John Rankin, who won a fight in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in November 1967, was reputedly also 2.23m 7ft 4in. Jim Cully, `The Tipperary Giant', who fought as a boxer and wrestled in the 1940s is also reputed to have been 2.23m 7ft 4in.