Peak Jack Dempsey Versus Peak Rocky Marciano

I go for Jack, but this is easily one my favorite imaginary matchups.

 

I vote for Dempsey as I do about four times a year.

One of the most asked questions.

 

'Though he has whipped everyone he has faced, compared with the champions of the past, Rocky Marciano is hardly more than a second-rater. I don't think Marciano is great. I hate to say so because The Rock is a fine man, honest, clean-living, ambitious, one of the nicest guys you want to meet. But in my book he couldn't carry the bucket for some champions of the past.'

- Jack Dempsey
St Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) - Tuesday 23rd August 1955

 

Dempsey quicker ,faster afoot, faster hand speed, better resistance to cuts, more elusive, better boxer.

 

Sums it up nicely for me

 

Early, hungry Dempsey beats the ricotta out of Rocky.

Later, comfortable, media star and socialite Dempsey ... even money and I might actually go with Rocky.