rocky marciano vs sam langford

This could be a bad match up for the rock besides his shaky chin langford was the complete package

 

Langford would win.

 

Marciano made for Langford ... Sam by KO.

 

Marciano in a brutal diesel beat down...Sam comes out swinging and goes down winging

 

i'm perplexed on this one but i'd pay a year's wages to see it.

 

I don't think Langford ever had any chin problems.

 

I picked the Rock but wouldn't be in the least suprised if it went the other way. I was basically picking a 1953-1955 Marciano against a 1910 or so Langford. On a come-along at the same time basis, don't even know who I' d pick.

Would love to see the match and the re-match. Marciano was usually brutal death in rematches (other than Lowry); Langford was murder in rematches if he did bad enough in the previous match that his reputation was now on the line.

 

He was knocked out a few times so he never had a la motta chin did he?

 

Being knocked out a few times doesn't mean he had a shaky chin either, especially when you take into account the circumstances that he was stopped under.

I believe Harry Wills was the first one to legit KO Langford when Sam was 35 years old going against a man 8 inches taller.

 

Shaky chin? Are you ******ed? Langford was as tough as they come.

You don't have a shaky chin just because you don't have punch-resistance on the level of Jake Lamotta. Very few people ever had.

Langford fought far more often than LaMotta for a start, and was 5'8" former welterweight. Getting knocked out by huge heavies in 20 odd-rounders doesn't mean he had a 'shaky chin'. You tool.

 

Langford had one of the best pound for pound chins of all time.

The number of times you get knocked down ins largley a function of the level of opposition you fight and Langford's schedule was just plaimn silly.

 

**** he must have been shrinking how did he go from being a 5'8 WW to a 5'6 HW

 

Since when was he 5'6"?

 

His height was probably exagerated to sell fights.

It is also possible that he grew an inch while active as a profesional fighter. People somtimes continue to grow up to the age of 21.