Rocky’s possible weight range?

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  1. Big Red

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    It varies quite a bit in my experience. With heavy endurance training I was about 165. But when I stopped running over 10 k most days and started weight training after a few years I was 230 pounds at 5’11. I think that’s how most people’s bodies are.

    Marciano was maybe trained down a little more then most heavyweights. A lot of them did back then I guess. Now days the way they train Marciano could probably be around 210 with modern training. And if he took peds maybe 220 or 230. He would lose some of his work rate though.
     
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  2. mcvey

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    Trouble with your fingers on the phone again.LINGERE?


    Careful with your sordid sexual innuendos,you don't want to be booted again do you Mongoosy.:nonono
     
  3. Mendoza

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    With a 12 round format, Rocky could afford to be about 200-205. Weight is an asset as long as it does not diminish speed, stamina, balance and flexibility. 5'10 and a shade, 200-205, I could see it.
     
  4. mcvey

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    Its a possibility,whether or not it would be a beneficial one is a moot point.
     
  5. Mendoza

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    Did you delete your Johnson white thread? I think Rocky could be 200 no problems today.
     
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  6. The Kentucky Cobra

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    What sordid innuendos, mr. Chicken? Enlighten me.
     
  7. choklab

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    Tommy Burns and Leon Spinks do alright with Joshua’s opposition.
     
  8. Combatesdeboxeo_

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    Obviously your frame is small if you can make 165 pounds. Your 230 pounds are artificial and manufactured. I am 6'1 and now i am around 220-230 pounds without running(except with my dogs) and training heavy weights ,my best weight in shape is around 210 pounds. once i was sick i could not eat solid during a month and i was skin and bone weighing around 185 pounds.
    Marciano was a pig at 210 pounds.he was 195 for the sparring with ali for the computer fight and he was fat,stop talking about fantasies,rocky never ever could be in a boxing ring in shape at 220-230 pounds
     
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  9. janitor

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    I have not spent much time speculating what a bulked up Marciano would have been like, because it is all supposition at the end of the day.

    What would happen in practice, is that you would have started to add mass, and you would have tracked where you were going with it.

    I think that it is reasonable however, to say that he could have been some sort of viable fighter at 210lbs, especially given the twelve round format.
     
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  10. mcvey

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    No I didn't,perhaps some one else did?
    Rocky could be 200lbs no problem ,would it make him any better is the question?
     
  11. mcvey

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    Do you think they beat Dillian Whyte,Wlad,Carlos Takam,Breazeale?
     
  12. mrkoolkevin

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    The main problem with your theory is that heavyweights (the most successful, anyway) were already getting significantly bigger by the early 1970s, well before the change to 12 round fights.

    BTW, what do you think would happen to today's heavyweight division if we switched back to 15 rounds? Would guys really come in lighter? Or would they just continue to pace themselves accordingly? Would rising cruiserweights start knocking off the big boys?
     
  13. mrkoolkevin

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    How, if at all, did your stamina, speed, and flexibility change when you went from 165 to 230?
     
  14. mcvey

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    You just carry on, silly bollocks ,its all good at my end.
     
  15. The Kentucky Cobra

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    Bahahaha

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