Folks, I bought the DVD from Amazon a while ago..... A great gift for any fight fan...... I love it, despite it being loaded with plenty of bull****.... No way in hell Rocco Marciano gets Ali pinned against the ropes for any great length of time to absorb punishment... Not gonna happen........ Ali never worked off the ropes until he fought Frazier in 1971 at a rusty 29 yrs of age.... Prime-4-prime, a '67 version of Ali pitted against a '52 version of Marciano, is a SOLID lock / win for Ali in my book..... Marciano rarely gets off with a decent combo against the overally spry and slick Ali....... I'm sorry, but Ali batters Marciano into a mid to late rds TKO, with the stoppage being a result of too many cuts and blood flowing from Marciano's face.... Ali wins.... Again, no way in hell, Marciano ever beats Ali............ I am talkin' bout BOTH guys in their primes stemming from 1952 and 1967................ :bbbhat SR.BILLARDO:think
Interesting...and ironic they have Rocky winning. I think 1967 is the only version of Ali that could ever have beaten prime Marciano.
WOW! I have Ali winning anything between 1964 thru 1975 with little to no problem against The Rockster............ :hey MR.BILL
I feel Ali of the 60's, given his speed and overall talent, would've pulled it out. The 70's version lied on the ropes too much.
Prime Ali beats Marciano. Requires a bit of a stretch of faith having Rocky win. Ali was better in every conceivable way except punching power in his prime compared to post exile. Maybe his hand troubles and lack of power could help the Rock... but I just see Ali winning a decision. The computer fighter is crazy. Ali isn't dropping Rocky the way they have it nor is Rocky KOing or droping Ali a multiple of times. Silly scenario. It's kind of too much like the Walcott fight. However, prime Rocky finds Ali in that small ring they fought in lol... But come on Bill. 71-75 Ali beats a prime Rock? That's almost just as much nonsense as the computer fight. That lay on the ropes tactic and conserve energy tactic would be suicide! And Ali can't keep on the move nor fend Rocky long enough at this point in his career.
Joe Frazier and George Foreman said Ali could never rope a dope Marciano....Tough fight for both men at any stage....could be a trilogy
While the fight is obviously no more than a bit of fun, and a computer obviously cannot predict such a fight, one thing which is often forgotten is that when the fight was made, it was always assumed that Ali did not have the greatest of chins. This is one of the obvious reasons why the predicted result was that Rocky would wear out and catch ali. AFter the second portion of his career, one would ahve expected the "toughness" rating in his career to raise from say 50% to maybe 95%. This would more than likely make Ali a much tougher proposition in a Marciano v Ali II computer fight.
Ali could beat Marciano any way he wanted, including the rope-a-dope. To be honest, I think he was just being polite to an old man by allowing him to win the fantasy match-up.