The Mighty Mapogos

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(03-27-2022, 09:44 AM)Mapokser Wrote: Mr.T size, which seems to imply Mr.T was the smallest. Rob also claimed he saw them being weighed multiple times.

Yeah, Rob made comments implying that Mr T was the smallest and the Dreadlocks was the biggest. Makuhulu and Dreadlocks in their prime were very close in size. I rated Mak higher for my impression, but it was close and debatable so I won't argue I someone claims that for his eye Dreadlocks was actually bigger.

(03-27-2022, 09:44 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I'm surprised you ranked Rasta as the smallest, he looked very impressive in the photos of his fight with Makulu in 2009 (which he won)

I mostly base my impression on a video (which I can not find anymore, probably got deleted) of Mr T, Dreadlocks and Rasta walking side by side patroling in which Rasta was the smallest looking male by any mean.

(03-27-2022, 09:44 AM)Mapokser Wrote: Also the Ranger Rob once said that the Mapogos were big for their time not because they are overall large lions but because at the time most lions in the SS were Mr.T size, which seems to imply Mr.T was the smallest. Rob also claimed he saw them being weighed multiple times.

That is intresting topic in itself. Rob said that neither of them was weithted more than 230 kg indicating that they were not big. Was it through? Of course people will start bringing examples of Ximpoko and other lions which were supposedly weighted at much over 250kg. Personally I do not believe in neither of such weight. It was already quite a lot of such mythical huge weights which in the end turned out to be just assumed weight, not an actual weight. Red Road male which is considered big individual himself was recently weighted and was 200-210 kg on empty stomach so probably would be around 220-230 with full stomach. Also when you look nowdays on the males of Sabi Sands in compare to the lionesses around - then at many cases you can actualy see then males are just a bit bigger than their lionesses, while when you look at old videos of Mapogos with Styx or Ximunghwe lionesses then in those the males look like twice the weight of the lionesses around them which is also intresting.

Btw there is also nice shot of PB, Mr T and Rasta in line through Rasta is on lower ground a a bit further from the camera which makes him look smaller then he actually was.

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There Rasta with Mr T and Shaka, this time on higher ground, making him look bigger than he actually was:

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