Marciano attempted the same cheat against Walcott first time but it back fired and went into his own eyes. Also Liston stops Rocky early.
I like Rocky but some of his fans are plain delusional just yesterday people were attempting to say he had equal power to Tyson and a better chin.
Its nonsense like that that gets peoples backs up and starts the pendulum swinging too far the other way.Marciano was a modest guy,confident, but quietly spoken, and I think he would be embarrassed by some of the absurd claims made here on his behalf.
Like, say, Galvatron and that guy who has Jaws in his avatar? Yeah, reasonable to endlessly repeat this piece of trivia for their sake I suppose.
Deceptively hard to hit compared to whom though? The problem is that the revisionist types around here insist on turning him into some kind of fast, technically flawless, defensively skilled ring genius.
I'm kind of sick that I wrote that now, because I don't want to be quoted about it and have conversations about it. But yes, exactly, compared to whom? That's the right question. He's not deceptively hard to hit for a great fighter. He's just not. He's nothing like as easy to hit as his grossest critics make out - and so this has led to this thing about "deceptively hard to hit". So deceptive to a tiny, tiny minority, apparently. He's not hard to hit compared to his peers - the other great heavies - and best-for-best he's easier to hit, for me, than his come-forwards compatriots, Tyson, Dempsey, Frazier. So it's not really deceptive at all. He's just a world-class, absolute top .1%er and like all those guys, nobody's going to walk up to him and doink him, it's impossible.
The point is he was deceptively hard to hit FOR A FIGHTER WITH HIS STYLE. Those that call him easy to hit can’t be further off the mark. This content is protected
