Joe Louis opponents over 200 in comparison Marciano

Joe Louis is a much, much greater fighter than Marciano.

 

Did you look up how many men under 180lbs Marciano fought? The answer is 7.

How about under 185lbs? Eleven,with a further 3 within a pound of that weight.
How many ranked men of 200lbs plus did Marciano fight?
How many of them were prime?

 

Louis was naturally bigger than Marciano tho.. if you look at their records overall I would bet Marciano was at a size disadvantage more regularly than Louis.

 

Louis was almost 6 2 and was about 200 at peak for Abe Simon 2 he was 207.
Rocky was probably barely 5 10 and for the 2 biggest fights of his career Louis and Walcott 1 he weighed 184 1/2. So yeah he was a lot bigger.

 

A Liston-Marciano fight would have been something certainly.

 

Well in the old days people turned out for hangings. Rocky might get a couple of shots in and Liston may flinch but Sonnys shots will lift the 185 pounder off the floor.

 

That has nothing to do with whom they respevtively fought,it's the heavyweight division.

 

It would have been a demolition, a heavyweight from the future versus one from the past, between them was the watershed that divided the old from the new, from scrappy little Rudy's, breadliners and occasional circus freaks to modern day, modern sized athletes.

 

In what year did Charles and Liston spar?

How did Marty like it a few months after the first go around when Liston used his head as a canvas mop?

Joe Louis was a shot to hell, one handed mummy when Marciano got a taste of him. And The Rock still left with a blown up face... from a ONE HANDED Louis with fenceposts for legs.

 

Oh, it's you again.

They made a nice movie about Rocky. You might enjoy it.

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Ali was just being magnanimous he knew the old news media and fans overwhelmingly still thought Dempsey Louis and Rocky were unbeatable gods. Belittling Rocky would have brought everyone down on him he was unpopular enough at that time.

 

This is verbatim what Ali said about Marciano before the fight

"Even in his prime, Rocky [Marciano] had no chance with me. First thing, he is too little. Less than five foot ten to my six foot three inches. I’d overwhelm him. I’d lay on him in the clinches like a big old grizzly bear, and I’d smother his insides out. He was too small to reach me from outside. I’d jab him twenty to one. Rocky had a face that cut easily. Can you imagine what my stinging jab would do to those weak eyes? By round three. Rocky would look like he ran into a lawn mower. How could he beat me? No way, is how."