Sailor Tom v Rocky Marciano???

He weighed 189lb when he fought Marciano. McCoy weighed 156lb when he fought Sharkey.

 

'Rec Rangering 101. No research necessary.

 

Exactly. And for three rounds he was basically allowed to pound Sharkey with his hardest, heavyweight-wrecking shots at will without fear of retaliation as Sharkey made the mistake of trying to box him ala Tommy Ryan (who was in his corner) and thus gave away the first three rounds ala Hagler vs Leonard.

But that isn't on Boxrec so certain posters won't know much about that. Ah well...

 

I wonder if McCoy were allowed to pound Marciano for three rounds nonstop if he could have possibly floored him? Doesn't seem too outrageous to me. That 156 pound frame floored heavyweights before. I see no reason why he couldn't drop the Rock under the same circumstances that he managed to floor Sharkey.

 

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Ryan messed things up for a couple of pressure fighters, by trying to turn them into slick boxers.

He had Jim Jeffries trying to outbox Jim Corbett for 15 rounds, before Jeffries manager removed him, and said something like "your blowing it son, you have to force the fightand hit the body". Jeffries manager essentialy saved hit title by doing that.

 

Could you have a more predictable answer ? .. of no consequence, same fighter ... he was also over forty when he did it and half as fast ... the point is a middleweight did it ... seriously SQ..

 

MCvey, I was not asking you the question, so stop with the defensive midned agenda. The question was give to SonnyListonsjab. The weight you are gave was from a 1900 fight. Choysnki Ko'd Johnson in 1901 ( weight unkown ), and by 1902 Johnson's listed weight in the Gardner fight was 185 pounds. If you wanted to be fair minded you list it this way. Bottom line Johnson was KO'd by a smaller man via a one punch Ko early in the fight. Johnson had at least 24 fights under his belt. In addition, the fight took place in his home town. Choysnki had to travel.

 

Sailor Tom would hang in tough for a while, but Marciano's defense would make the difference as against Rex Layne.

 

I think Layne is over rated, and would not compare him to Sharkey.

 

Layne compares very well to Sharkey

 

I agree with the below quote:

Layne was a straight-up mauler with a decent right hand. He may not have trained as intensely as the sailor, but he was a little bigger. The problem was that much like Tom Sharkey, he was not particularly elusive and ate a lot more leather than he was able to connect with against Marciano.

 

Layne was a poor man's Tom Sharkey at best.