Marciano's Power?

Well it's complicated but Marvis Frazier apparently was, at least that is what his father told him he was. So he went out and applied that style.

 

I think it's safe to say Rocky hit damn hard. I've got a great article someone in one of my mags by Angelo Dundee and i might even try and find it on my current week and a half holidays. He talks at long length about Marciano and how he would have went against the current Heavies of around 83-84 i think it was.

Who buys into what who knows but it could well be another 20 page thread!!!!

 

I agree.
But I'd say perhaps that disqualifies him from truly being an "attrition puncher". When he did wear opponents down, he wore them down with a relatively small number of punches landed. Every punch was a haymaker than hurt like ****, as you put it.

 

You could say that, because of his often less than precise punching the end result was that he scored stoppages by a process of attrition.

 

I'd say he hit harder than Floyd.

 

"Boxing Scene". He says of Witherspoon that Rocky would beat him by just hitting him everywhere even the hand in front of his face. He oddly calls Cooney the most dangerous fight.

 

No need for this. He´d fight at the 1979 introduced Cruiser Weight Devision.

 

And what George, now run along you little gopher.....

 

Sorry that was intended for George.

 

You sound like broken record George.....

 

Indeed it was.

 

The whole "hitting them everywhere" approach touted by Marcianistas just doesn't work too often in the modern world against the sort of athletes we now see in the heavy division, especially if you are taking 2 to deliver 1.

Spoon would have tuned him up if he tried that whole inaccuracy-is-the-new-accuracy approach.

All regards to broken blood vessels and such.

 

Rocky never hit people "everywhere." This is just a fable.
He only hit them to the body and the chin.
He was also cheap. And got arrested in the army.
Louis was 27213 years old.