Rocky Marciano vs Frank Bruno

What`s the average height of a cruiser champ now though?

 

I don't know I'd have to look.

But either way if you want Rocky to move up and fight these guys, he needs to be allowed to gain weight.

Otherwise it's an unfair handicap imo.

If I try to envision Hagler fighting Spinks, I certainly don't envision Hagler staying at 160 giving away 15 pounds for no reason.

 

Bruno chin was iron?I don't know which jokebook you read because it makes me smile and laugh!
Bruno chin iron?Lets see Lennox almost knocked him out,Tyson knocked him twice,James Bonecrusher Smith knocked him out cold,Whiterspoon also!
His best win was coke addict McCall who was nothinf better than average puncher with low level skills and only thing he was is that he was punching bag because his iron chin like Chuvalo!
Bruno Liston?Liston would knock him only with that telephone pole jab!
Liston is harder puncher than anyone he faced,stronger,almost more durable than 90% of his opponents,more skillful...
You pull Ali but you forgott one thing and that is:ALI WAS A MOVER!
He punch and move very fast,he is faster than Bruno,with better fotwoork and speed,chin and stamina!
Bruno is not a mover and he would come right to Liston and that is what Liston really loved!
Bruno jab to match Liston?Liston not only had reach advantage,faster and stiffer jub but so harder jab that he could knock out opponents with him!
He outjabed Lewis?I don't think that he was even close to outjab McCall but Lewis?
Bruno would try to slug with harder puncher,more skilled,more durable,stronger guy and better jabber!
He would get KOd worse than against Tyson!

 

The worst part is Marciano haters who always claimed he was too small but guess what all guys he beat were bigger than him and he beat them all and retired undefeated!
You are the one who think Marciano would lost against anyone we mentioned because he retored as only undefeated guy and your hero didn't?
Yeah Marciano is the smallest,lost against everyone and case is close OK?
In your head you would pick all guys whom he beat to beat him!

 

He sure did!!!...May 2, 1955. Valdez told the press after the fight:"There is no chance now for me with Marciano"

 

Moore was the same weight as Marciano.
Lastarza was the same weight.
Quinn was the same weight.
Lowry was 5lbs lighter.
Ross was 9lbs lighter.
Mathews was 8lbs lighter.
Charles was 2lbs lighter in their first fight.
Bilazarian was 10lbs lighter.

 

Walcott wasn’t even in his prime when he faced Rocky. He was already on his way to retirement and went into the fight with 18 losses (4 by ko). Yes I think Bruno could have beaten that Walcott

 

The guy's a plagiarizer incapable of forming his own opinions, hence his child-like responses (when he's not deliberately stealing someone else's work of course). Don't give him the luxury of a response.

 

The big problem with looking at height is that guys with similar heights don’t necessarily have the same body frame. Just going by height plenty of light heavyweights and even middleweights were taller than Marciano even in his day, but they didn’t have Marciano’s thick frame.

Mike Tyson even during his reign as the undisputed heavyweight champion was much shorter than plenty of the active light heavyweights and middleweights.

Here Mike Tyson (5’9”) being towered over by Mark Breland 6’2” welterweight and Michael Olajide 6’1” middleweight.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photo...e-ring-before-picture-id177981161?s=2048x2048

Mike with Golovkin

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Not sure if this topic is a joke ( and I am not getting it ) so a truly great Heavy weight champion , undefeated to boot, a superbly conditioned fighter, with iron in his DNA , never knows when he is beat, heart of lion, is beaten by a mediocre fighter, who just about won a world title ( from a man who had mental issues ) couldn't really take a heavy weights punch, collapsed when tagged cleanly, was the most robotic fighter I have seen for a long while, WHAT !!!!!!

 

No Valdes beat Charles and Marciano took on the loser twice

 

Moore was 1lb heavier,reach and height advantage
Lying again LaStarza was 4lb heavier than him in first fight,reach and height advantage
Quinn was same weoght but also reach and height advantage
Lying Lowry was 2lbs lighter 178 he and Marciano as 180
For four rounds it was all Charles. The 186½-pound, 18-5 underdog boxed beautifully. Then the 187½-pound Rocky, bleeding profusely from a wide, inch-and-a-quarter gash over his left eye, came on.
What about Vingo,Shkor,Louis,Walcott...all bigger than him?
And Charles was heavier in their second bout!

 

Walcott way in his prime!He won world title at the time!
18 losses my ass,that was in his very early stage he only had like what two wins and two losses!
He was so outshape that he beat Louis,knocked Charles,Bivins,Maxim,Harols Johnson...
Bruno was outboxed by Whiterspoon and Smith who were bums compared to Walcott!
Bruno was so slow and static,not even close to Joe Louis and guess what,Walcott outboxed Lozis and Bruno would be outboxed even more easy plus he would be gassed later and wored down!