If Marciano Was Such A Dynamite Puncher?

I raised the name Applegate because he was a non-entity with a 12-16-2 record,who had just 2 fights in the previous 2 years when he faced Marciano.
From the report it would seem that,[not for he first time ,]Marciano won this with his superlative condition.

"This was a bruising, crowd-pleasing battle. Marciano won handily enough but failed to even knock down his opponent, who had fought only twice in the previous two years. Applegate's best round was the third, which the referee also took from Marciano because of a low punch. Red landed plenty of good punches, typically in the early parts of rounds, but Marciano almost always came back later to take the play away. Marciano's best round was the sixth. The attendance was 4167 and the gross gate was $7,6l6"
Was any fighter ever better conditioned?
I said I know nothing about Red Applegate if I did ,I wouldn't have asked you ,you could maybe have taken that as a clue? This is fun!:happy

 

Oh definitely I just need to get you into shallow water now.:stir

 

Thats silly because it doesn't address the original question,which ,just to refresh your memory is ,was Marciano a dynamite one punch ko artist ,and my stance is that he wasn't.

Your question is irrelevant because :


1. It has nothing to do with the thread .
2. Marciano was only under 185lbs 4 times in his last 24 fights and they are spread over 5 years! Two of those were against Walcott and he was only half a pound under.The others were the first Lastarza fight ,and the Louis fight.
3.Marciano was the heavier man in 3 of his title defences and in the fight previous to his title challenge he was 8.5lbs heavier than Mathews!

But ,as I have the prospect of a very nice day in front of me, I shall venture some names that were around Rocky's size

Sam Langford
Bob Fitzsimmons
Bob Satterfield
Tommy Gomez
Yvon Durelle
Jack Dempsey
Max Schmeling
Curtess Sheppard
Archie Moore
Joe Choynski
Iron Hague
Tom Sharkey
That's a dozen 2 more than you asked for,

 

You might like to ask yourself how many times Marciano made 185 lbs when he was prime let alone weigh under it?:think

 

And Moore said Durelle was a harder puncher than Marciano.

 

Archie Moore said Durelle hit harder than Marciano that's a decent endorsement. Have you seen Gomez? Think carefully before you answer.
Gomez has 65 kos in 75 fights for a near 75%ko record ,he was a serious 180lbs banger

If, as you say, you have seen Hague v Langford you would agree with my pick, he was a monster puncher.