Andre Ward vs Rocky Marciano

Rocky crush

 

Sad as it may be, Marciano was a dirty fighter himself. He socked guys in the nuts as well, and had mastered the right hook-right elbow 1-2. Anything Ward can do, Rocky would be happy to return with interest.

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This. I haven’t seen the footage in almost 20 years, but in the Marciano-Shkor fight Shkor was fouling Marciano worse than Wlad fouled Povetkin until Marciano hit him with one of the most blatant nut shots I’ve ever seen and followed it up with a right hand that dropped Shkor.

He also didn’t mind pounding people on the back of the head. I remember him knocking down Moore with a punch to the back of the head right in front of the ref and Moore looking shocked that the ref didn’t care or even give Marciano a warning.

I’m still to this day shocked that Kovalev let Ward get away with repeatedly fouling him without fouling back. I’m all for fair fighting, but if a guy keeps fighting dirty you eventually have to even the score.

 

Marciano is overrated as eff.

Boxing has evolved in terms of technique since barbaric marciano.

And how much bigger is he exactly? Be real man.

Ward could get a decision, don't see why not.

 

Marciano by ko is the only realistic position I can take. A CW wrecker against an elite SMW. Ward would have to fight the perfect fight to beat him. There are quite a few very talented boxers on Marciano's resume that should've completely outboxed him but ended up knocked out.

 

I could go back and forth on this all night, totally, totally different eras, Ward might be able to keep out of trouble and get a decision or Marciano might close him off for 20 seconds and cave his face in.

Ward won more than a few fights off conditioning but them old geezers back in the day had way better stamina than many of today's fighters.

Who knows.

 

4 votes for Ward by KO?
I really don't know what to say.

 

Ahahahahahahahaa. Literally fell out of my chair laughing at this.

 

Rock knocks his block off.

 

training for 15 rounds against 12 rounds.

 

I’m a fan of Ward, he plain and simply knows his way around a boxing ring including all the dark arts.
He would be hunted down and stopped in this fight though.
He would encounter, strength, power and sheer unrelenting pressure the likes of which he’d have never encountered before.

 

I'm curious about these advancements in technique that guys with 32 fights were able to develop but not guys with 220 fights who lived some decades earlier. Were these mystical techniques delivered in tablet form on some mountain outside the Kronk gym?

 

I'm not a fan of Ward.

I do however appreciate his ring smarts and gameplanning and his awkward (and dirty) fighting style that makes even good fighters look bad.

However, he relies on infighting and roughing people up at close range, and in Marciano he's facing a guy from a higher division that was unparalleled at doing those same things at a higher rate over a longer distance. No doubt Ward would look good in some spots. But a guy that got tired (and knocked down) fighting Kovalev is in for a nightmare against Marciano. It's just a horrible style matchup in addition to a size disadvantage for Ward.

 

I couldn’t agree more