Rocky Marciano vs Mike Tyson

Tyson was an elite boxer 30 pounds of muscle heavier then Rocky. This is over inside a round. Two vastly different eras. Now if you want to say oh well if Rocky could have used modern training and used steroids he would have been the same size etc then find someone else to debate cause that’s more fantasy then can be analyzed seriously.

 

And would that modern training and PEDs make him any quicker, longer and better balanced?

 

Exactly, of all the matchups between all time greats in the heavyweight division this one has 1st round knockout written all over it.
Rocky has some advantages , grit , determination and conditioning.... but he'll never get to use them.

 

Take possible prime fights. For Spinks Tyson was 218 1/4. For Charles 1st fight Rocky was 187. 31 lbs weight pull. This is why they created the cruiser weight division. Even if you said everything else was even how do you overcome that kind of weight advantage? Rocky had more heart? Heart is great until your knocked unconscious.

 

Mike was famously known as undersized for a HW but as you pointed out he had over 30 lbs! (of mostly muscle) over Rocky. Big size difference with Mike actually being the faster man.

 

Barrage? Show me clips of Marciano doing power combos. Slick double jabs? With the shortest arms of any HW champ? Show one clip of Rocky pumping jabs period. I think you're confused with Rocky Balboa!

 

Exactly. And Rocky looked for the one shot much more than he used combos. Mike blows him out in the first with Rocky a very slow starter who was dropped in the first more than once by MUCH older smaller fighters as in Moore was 42 and Mike at his best was 22!

 

If Rocky used modern training he would be 6'5 400 pounds of muscle with punching power that could level a small apartment building

 

My honest opinion is that if Tyson doesn't get Marciano out relatively early, Rocky will get him late.

 

Rockys too small.

 

Would be a brutal war. Tyson wins.

 

Rocky could be 6-5 and 240... but he still wasn't good enough, not athletic enough, not fast enough, not balanced enough to beat Tyson.

 

I don't like this matchup.
Tysons lethal and Marciano s too brave.