Right, you have a difficult time reading and understand the responses of other people, don't you? I stated that he would be fighting as a cruiserweight. Ah, yes, here we go with the debunked myth that Rocky fought past their prime fighters. Hall of fame fighters by the way. Even if that were true and he fought them when they were slightly past their prime, with the exception being Louis who was close to retirement and of course all champions fight the odd close to retirement champion, what would that prove? He fought them multiple times as well as top contenders multiple times. Archie Moore, for instance, was 149-19-8 when the Rock fought him and after fighting Marciano was 40-3-2 for the remainder of his career. Jersey Joe was 50-17 when Rocky fought him, and Ezzard Charles was 85-10, and contenders Rex Layne was 34-1, Harry Matthews 81-3 and Roland LaStarza was 53-3. He also fought contenders Bernie Reynolds 52-9, and underrated Lee Savold 104-45-4.
Right Joe Louis is 6'1 and weighed 190 pounds naturally. You think James Toney is bigger than Anthony Joshua? James Toney weighed 260 in some of his later fights.
Lol Marciano beat guys who were 190 pounds and less. Which means he didn't beat any modern sized heavyweights. The smallest guy Usyk beat in his career was 193. Which means the smallest person he beat was still bigger than Rocky Marciano.
Is something wrong with you kid? Marciano was still a 180 pound guy. His punching power was good enough to knock out old 190 pound and smaller fighters. His chin was so good that a 160 to 170 pound fighting in Ted Lowry beat him and got robbed. Not only did he beat Marciano he toyed with him and tried his best not to knock him out. [url]http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Rocky_Marciano_vs._Ted_Lowry_(1st_meeting)[/url]
He carried well over 200 pounds naturally. Boxers and people in general put on more weight as they age. Even Lennox Lewis was 220 pounds early in his career. Now without extra fat on him Ruiz would be a natural middle weight. The guy had close to 100 pounds of fat on him. Marciano probably is naturally bigger then Ruiz.
Somebody from the Classic Forum just typed that Bob Fitzsimmons a guy who usually weighed around 150-160 could beat Lennox Lewis. Their reasoning was if Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman could do it then Fitzsimmons could do it as well.