Rocky could dehydrate to super middleweight~

His best fighting weight was 185-190 lbs, which is pretty big to start with, for what you are claiming. He was pretty lean at that weight, unless you are seeing different pictures to me. There if probably not a lot more that he could have done to get his weight lower, without engaging in the kind of weight cutting that fighters in a lower weight class do. Whether such a weight cutting program could be combined with his existing training program, is highly doubtful. It is probably noteworthy that he never tried to make 175 lbs in his own era, since most light heavyweights of that era, came in at the high 180s in heavyweight fights. I think that it is highly unlikely that he could have been a supermiddleweight, unless perhaps you imagine him fighting at a younger age.

 

There was no 5lb of fat to lose. Some people can get shredded on a boxing training program, and some can't. It is a matter of genetics. He might have been able to get shredded on the diet of a male stripper, but it would not have been compatible with a boxing training program. The only place for him to go, was to drop water weight.

 

He prolly could have gotten to 154 with modern nutrition and weight drain programs. Mayorga-Marciano would have been a great brawl, 12 rounds of haymakers and who knows who would emerge from the dust!

 

He was already in tip top shape and he had those legs like a power lifter. That's hereditary. No was he gets any lighter IMO

 

True. I think Muhammad Ali vs Ricardo Lopez would've been a pretty good fight, too.

 

The fact is that just because fighter A dropped N lbs, it doesn't mean that any fighter of the same weight could drop N lbs.

You are not necessarily dealing with the same thing to start with.

In the example that you are citing, the fighter has clearly shed significant muscle mass to make weight, and I don't think that Marciano had a lot of road to run on that.

 

I don't see how there is unless you are going to restrict his nutritional intake, or perhaps dust off one of Peter Maher's old training programs.

How are you going to do it on top of his existing regime, and still make him a functional fighter?

Furthermore if there are fighters like Marciano sweating down to 168, then were are the super middleweight Marciano's?

Where did all the power go?

 

Because technology, dude. Computers are better now than they were in the 80s, so obviously boxers are better now, too. And sports science and stuff. Don't you know anything?

 

Maybe with modern 'nutrition' aka clenbuterol etc he might do it.

 

Fighters have always gone to extreme lengths to cut weight.

There are a few more tricks these days, but it is nothing new.