Could Ward have Doubled Marciano over into a fetal position with a body shot?

Since he is thought to have done it to Kovalez, then he must be assumed to carry devastating power when targeting the body-correct?

 

I am referring to the CLAIM that he has the power to cause the bending over into a fetal position via a supposedly legal shot or a series of body legal shots and asking those making that claim whether they also believe he could have doubled Marciano over in that way via one or an accumulation of legal body shots as they claim he did Kovalev. Just trying to determine just how powerful they consider Ward to be in that body-shot area.

 

I chose Marciano as an example because when Marciano gained the HW crown he weighed 182 pounds. So that brings him more or less into the weight range at which Kov and Ward were fighting that night.


Strange as it might seem I have never observed any of Rocky's opponent's targeting his body. Maybe because they didn't want to risk temporarily lowering their guard in order to deliver a body shot? I mean. if Ward can double an opponent over in that way then I imagine that a far more muscular fighter like Walcott should have been able to do the same.

Yet, I never have seen any other fighter being doubled over into a fetal position in the way they claim that Kov was via body shots. I have seen them go down writhing in pain as Dela Joya did against Bernard though.

BTW
Good question about how HWs are able to absorb the greater impacts. I had assumed that the are more firmly anchored to the ground and larger neck muscles. But that would be offset by the greater force. Like a Volkswagen not being able to topple an elephant but a sixteen wheeler being capable of it.

 

No, my quandary is only in reference to whether his body shots are being deemed powerful enough to have done the same to Marciano.

 

Well, Rockey didn't need drain down to 175 since 180 and above was considered HW at that time. That's true about Marciano, he trained like a beast for every fight and fought all through it as if he was starting the first round. So one would assume his midsection was in condition.