1955 SI article on Marciano-Moore

mrkoolkevin · Aug 14, 2016

SuzieQ49 said: ↑

It's called film. We have our own eyes. We look at film from the 20s and see that most of those guys had horrible stances, kept there guards low, didn't double up on the jab, didn't throw combinations, had no head movement.

Then we fast forward to the 50s and we see Charles and Walcott have crisp, fundamentally sound, elegant boxing styles with slick defense, graceful footwork, and both threw a wide variety of punches with authority and proper technique

Marciano despite being a crude fighter in nature, had built his own style that can succeed against a modern fighter. He had great upperbody movement fighting from a difficult crouch, he moved his torso in unorthodox angles, nice head movement, he kept a high guard, he feinted very well, mixed up his punches from all different angles...and combine that with incredible physical strength, amazing one punch power, super human stamina, and a tough attitude...and you got a great fighter
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I agree with virtually all of this, if the comparison is between Marciano and the heavyweights of old.

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1955 SI article on Marciano-Moore

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