I found his views on Ali interesting and it shows how unexpected it was for Ali to dodge the draft and make a stand against it. Marciano seemed quite sure he'd go into the service and was trying to pack as many fights in as he could before he had to postpone his career.
I also found it interesting that he would have viewed Ali as the "perfect oponent" if he were champ and Ali were challenger and was pretty skeptical of the legitmacy of Ali's wins over Liston.
The rock, strength and determination wins over skill. Here's a related video that popped up at the end of the Marciano vid. Interesting. [yt]UMchcGU4gU4[/yt]
Yeah, I don't see how Ali is a perfect opponent. I think he may have meant perfect match considering their physical disparities. In terms of the comeback, I've also heard Marciano didn't have it when training to get in shape. I've also heard that when noise got around Cus was veering his way with rematch papers or something which killed the possibility of it. Perhaps both are true, I know the former is.
Normally when someone starts a thread like this it's not interesting at all. But that really really was. Cheers. Rocky looked a bit funny! This content is protected Fitting.
Maybe a perfect opponent for a good entertaining fight, not a perfect opponent to beat. Slugger vs boxer, I think that is what he meant.
Yeah, Marciano in the interview admitted he gave training a go and he saw that he wasn't going to regain what he once had. It'd have taken a super fight like one with Ingo to even make him consider trying another go at fighting. I think it's probably best he didn't because fighters like him, Frazier, Dempsey, and Tyson never really last long. Their styles require too much on point physical condition to do well at the highest level to make a comeback and win when 36 or 37 years old after a 3 year layoff. If Marciano could've gotten back 70% of what he was against Moore (already less than 100% of his prime self), I think he had a chance at defeating Ingo. I'm a fan of his toupee. His fan thinned in the mid 1950s This content is protected .......then got thicker again in the 1960s.... This content is protected
Lou Duva was going to work The Rock's corner...Rocky started eating right...hitting the heavy bag...doing roadwork...but he soon felt that he couldn't get into the kind of shape that he had been in...
It still would've been interesting to see what he would've done against Ingo. In a slugfest anything can happen, and Rocky-Ingo would've been a slugfest.
Bet that nearly killed him too:yep..he loved his italian food, esp. the "spags" as he called them, according to his biography.