Rocky Marciano vs Joe Frazier

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  1. The Malibu Mauler

    The Malibu Mauler Lakers in 5 Full Member

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    Imagine calling the heavyweight champion of the world a journeyman to further your own agenda. With that reach, you could outbox Lennox Lewis!
    Also didn't, like, y'know, everyone say he was a pretty hard hitter? Man had good showings of hurting people
     
  2. mr. magoo

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    sure it is. I myself feel its a very even fight and would not be surprised to see mixed results had they fought a trilogy.
     
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  3. George Crowcroft

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    Oh only like, the greatest one punch KO ever, over a top 5 P4P fighter of all time....
     
  4. The Malibu Mauler

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    I think some sportswriters also ranked him among the hardest and greatest punchers ever or something, and I've heard most people have them in their lists of hardest hitters in history. But what do they know, right?
     
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  6. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    Ah, speechless I see, concession accepted.

    Also on a serious note, reading your comment, Marciano was up by the count of 2. The count lasted mistakenly til 3, and overall lasted 4 seconds
     
  7. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    Bah, paid professional sportswriters?? We're nerds with a keyboard on a forum! We're clearly the more important source
     
  8. mcvey

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    You can hear the referee's count .
     
  9. George Crowcroft

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    In fairness, most of us would do a better job of stuff like that than a lot of teh guys who did it.
     
  10. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    Cool, and Marciano got up at 2
     
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  11. Reinhardt

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    Whoa cowboy! when Walcott dropped Rocky I thought he looked stunned, and I could never see Moore dropping Joe Frazier.
     
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  12. mcvey

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    I don't think Marciano was dirty in this fight,he butted Walcott in the 6th, which may or may not have been intentional Walcott got a cut over his eye and Marciano a scalp wound.Walcott hit Marciano after the bell ended the 3rd round.
     
  13. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    I thought he looked angry at himself personally, his movements were smooth and controlled getting up (possibly the only time you can call Marciano's movements smooth and controlled in the ring lol)
     
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    thank you
     
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  15. George Crowcroft

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    I can, especially leaning down whilst taking that counter. It was a balance issue