Marciano vs Langford

Show me a fighterwho has a good KO% against elite fighters and I will show you an all time great finisher.

 

I honestly think that Langford is up there with guys like Louis as a finisher.

Top five of all time at heavyweight.

 

Langford takes it. Pretty decisively. By T/KO ref/corner stoppage, cuts, or he might just not be able to make the count after tasting the canvas a few times. Maybe a clear decision victory.

 

Marciano, better boxer, better timing, higher workrate, stronger, rangier, stronger. Would be a bruising battle but Marciano lands the better punches that tell the toll

 

LoL.

 

Ermmmmmmm

No.

 

I have to love Clay Moyle.

Before he wrote his book I was an eccentric with a ridiculously high opinion of Sam Langford.

Now I am within the normal range.

 

I am with you there. A fantastic read and a good evaluation.

However, I think this match-up might be too much for Sam. I just don't think it's his best weight. He lost to Johnson (albeit as a rather green, undersized fighter) and Marciano was far more effective offensive fighter than Johnson in my book, harder puncher, more tenacious. Sam liked them when they came forward. However, I doubt he would have liked the workrate + power that Marciano brought. According to Sam himself, McVea tried to use the jab and retreat against him, so that is not an apt comparison.

That said, Sam is still in the argument of #1 all time LB4LB.

 

We get it Rocky's stronger.

 

Langford almost doesn't seem human to get those quality wins from lightweight to heavyweight. I can't think of anyone who carried their punch like him either sometimes I think maybe he is made up the footage must be fake nobody can dominate in that many weights.

 

Hard fight to figure out. Close one. In a 12-15 round fight, 3 judges, prime vs prime, Marciano wins by a majority decision...in my opinion.