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I still have pneumonia, fuck it, entertain me.

So … Bucky was a three-time YMCA welterweight boxing champion by the time Pearl Harbor happened in December of 1941.

At the time, under the regulations of the New York State Athletic Commission, welterweight was a weight class of 147 to >160 pounds. Pictures of 24-26 year old ish (which would be pre-war Bucky) Sebastian Stan provided. For Science, of course …

That’s a 6′ welterweight.

War-time Bucky? Was not a welterweight.

That … that is not a 6′ welterweight. Even accounting for the padding in the uniforms. Meaning that the Army packed at least 10 pounds of muscle onto pre-serum war-time Bucky. When you’re as lean as this motherfucker is, that is not an accomplishment the US Army would have been able to do lightly.

Post-war, post-serum Bucky?

The Winter Soldier is not hitting the gym. The serum seems to have added at least 20 pounds to Bucky’s pre-war muscle mass.

That is a 6′, 200 pound get out the way, okay. So between pre-WW2 Brooklyn and Bucharest, the serum put at least 40 pounds of solid muscle and probably thicker, heavier bones onto his frame. Not to mention the metal …

I accidentally erased the original timeline post I made. I’m thinking of doing it all over again, in small posts like this, in a contained Tumblr of its own, so I can keep adding info and updating each bit when I come across things. Yes? No? Imma do it……