This content is protected D.T. you know that Bert Cooper nearly stopped Holy. Another referee would have called that. it's great that holy came back but thats my point. Holy isn't an indestructible immortal, espescially versus Marciano, who was a harder-hitting and better fighter then Cooper. I imagine Holy would likely win a decision. But a KO/TKO win for Marciano is not out of the question.
Marciano too much pressure for Evander and hits too hard for Evanders good and heart...he does what Burt Cooper failed to do.
You're only saying that because of how he cane back and stopped Cooper himself. But a good number of referees would have stopped the fight. Period. And he did hurt holy badly. That's my point.
Hard to say. He was naturally compact and a endomorph but ne never really carried any muscle. His measurement are small. For someone whose bread and butter was stamina and who wasn't particularly fast, i'm not sure bulking up would be a good idea. Tua and Tyson are naturally bigger barrel chested thick set guys and when they went even a bit above certain weights they lost a lot of speed and stamina.
If you look at Holyfield he does really well against punchers and outboxes smaller come forward fighters. If you can beat Tyson and bully Tua is sparring, you can beat Marciano. Holy is going to be able to push Marciano around here because of his strength, dirty head butts. Holyfield also has the speed, jab and range to outbox Rocky. On the back foot Rocky won't be quite as powerful or effective. The number of rounds don't matter too much because Holyfield is Marciano's equal in conditioning
I'm pretty sure Holyfield could put a combination together that could drop Marciano. After that.. who knows? Maybe Holyfield would eat some rights and Marciano would eat some uppercuts.
i really dont know with this one i am edging toward holyfield but am not confident at all the only thing i am confident of is this would be one of the dirtiest heavyweight fights to be seen anywhere at anytime