Picture of Sonny Liston and Rocky Marciano

So much for Sonny "towering" over Marciano in the "Dream Fight" discussions!!!

 

Personally, I think, if it happened there and then the guy who has been out the ring 9 years going in against the reigning world champ is at a huge disadvantage in a sparring session this is obvious.
However I’m pretty sure Rocky would still show enough to make Liston realise that prime for prime it would of been a hell of a match.

 

Photos can be really deceptive though. Lens distortion and minor shifts in foreground/background relation can produce optical illusions that almost have to seen to be believed. For example I can show you different photos from the selfsame fight, in one of which Louis looks much bigger than Walcott and the other Walcott looks bigger.
Give me a minute and I'll see if I can find them...
edit: Here we go:
[url]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/2d/b5/5f2db534bdaeb0f1e6dcc4e2bf028758.jpg[/url]

[url]http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/jersey-joe-walcott-clasps-joe-louis-during-their-heavyweight-match-in-picture-id515249740[/url]

I've also seen photos taken from certain angles where Holyfield looks bigger than Bowe and Lewis.

 

Damn, they had a tough strict dress code for refs back in the 60s!

 

Wow, not much separating these two in size judging by this photo. This forum well mostly the general forum is OBSESSED with size, I swear they’d probably go on record saying the NBA is full of could be Heavyweight champs since so much emphasis is put on height and weight. They need to all look at this photo, I swear they make Marciano out to be Marvin Hagler’s size lol. Thanks for sharing the pic..

As far as the question, Rocky was tough as the come so Sonny isn’t icing him cold no way. But he would get the better of the older Rock for sure.. Prime for Prime it’d be a savage encounter.

 

I know I’ve been watching Boxing Live for about 35 years and I’ve been a member of this Forum since the beginning and some days I come here and read some of the thread titles in the general and I just shake my head and leave.. Theres no point in even debating some of the people on here because it doesn’t matter what you say they have their mind made up. Like Size does matter in some cases but to some posters it’s like the deciding factor. Like for real when I see a thread that says Jarrell Miller would’ve killed prime Mike Tyson because he’s just too big I just roll my eyes and keep scrolling.

 

Listed in the Clay match as 84", in the first and second Patterson match at 84" and in article on the Joiner bout, I also found 84". In fact, I have seen nothing to the contrary. Can you provide evidence that the 84" figure is incorrect? If so, what do you propose was his actual reach?

Do the words "clumsy" and "unbalanced" now equate to "explosive"? Liston could be pretty light on his feet for a guy his size, much more nimble than the Rock, much better balanced. He was just a superior athlete in almost every regard.

Which guy was decked by ancient sub-200 pound fighters? Where does this "better chin" fiction find any base in reality? Hell, Liston got his jaw cracked and neither stopped nor went down.

 

I suspect that Marciano could have brought up a bit of the old magic for a couple of rounds.

A world class fighter will remain a force in sparring, long after they have ceased to be a force at world level.

 

LOL. What's going on in this thread? Marciano's practically the same size as Sonny Liston now? You guys are characters.

 

Just to confirm Liston got sparked unconscious by a sub 200lber........

 

Is he really. Really.

32 years old, never fought outside of Japan (as a HEAVYWEIGHT) and not a name on his resume that I recognize (outside Chauncy)...

 

At what point in his career did this occur? What was Marciano doing at a similar age?

Why even post such intellectual dishonesty.