Calzaghe v Marciano

Erm... how many hours did they train in a day?

 

Some fighters have done a 14 hour day in the run up to a title fight. Especialy in the pre war era this was not uncommon.

 

Obviously i am speaking from a position of ignorence not knowing particularly why people would train alot more then and be less fit? And they would be because times and records for basic events as well as bacic tests on athletes fitness have improved no end over the last 50 years.

People who train for marathon running do training like that... one day a week. The rest of the week the will do 5-10 miles a day.

 

Marciano was a heavyweight puncher, even though he weighed 189 he hit as hard as any ATG at any weight, Calzage right now weighs 168 and would be out of his class even though he is great at 168, who would win Savador Sanchez or Calzage, who would win Roberto Duran or Sanchez, who would win Calzage or Duran

 

Marciano was what we would today call OCD.

He ran 6 miles every day including Christmans Day. As a fight drew closer he would step up to 12 and ultimately 16 miles. He trained more because he was obsesive than because it was strictly necisary. IE it would be naging at him in the back of his mind if he didnt do it.

It is perhaps not an exageration to say that at his peak he was one of the best athletes on the planet.

Back in the days of 45 round fights 14-18 miles of roadwork was not uncommon. Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries both ran those sort of distences in the run up to a fight but would take a layoff in the last few days.

 

That is some very insightful stuff. I am glad i heard it. You probably said in a previous post that it was in the build up to a fight, i thought you were saying that that was every day which would have been crazy. It sounds like brutal stuff.

Who would you chose H2H to beat the best Rocky Marciano that there was and what ATG heavy weights would you choose to him it beat?

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I find it hard to believe Marciano ran that much. Firstly,it would utterly exhaust him for the boxing portion of his training, thus being counter-productive. Secondly, not even top flight marathoners do those distances. They have one or two very long days a week, alterneated with shorter (6 - 10 mile) runs at racing pace. Lastly, at 190 lbs. his knees, ankles and hips would be annihilated. That's why marathoners typically weight 145 and under.

Also, the pictures I have seen of Jeffries doing "roadwork" he is wearing large bulky sweaters and what appear to be wool pants. And he is obviously walking.

 

Ha ha ha.

I think that Sonny Liston would be Rockys brand of kryptonite stylisticaly. Everything Marciano did would play into his hands. George Foreman would also be one to steer him clear of.

He would match up verry well against the great technical boxers of history. He might well be able to beat both Muhamad Ali and Larry Holmes regardless of whether they acomplished more. He would likley hand Gene Tunney his second profesional loss also.

Against guys like Jack Dempsey and Mike Tyson things would get interesting. They would be able to hit him virtualy at will but he would also be able to hit them. In a slug fest to the death the outcome almost becomes a toss up.

 

This is an even fight until Marciano lands his first heavy body shot after that Joe starts running and the result is inevitable. By the sixth or seventh Calzaghe runs out of steam and bites the dust looking badly busted up.

 

Calzaghe is NOT a big puncher at supermiddleweight.

Marciano would wade through Calzaghe's punches and break him
down with body punches. Rocky hit too hard for Calzaghe.

Rocky would be on Calzaghe like white on rice. Can Calzaghe take
one of Rocky's hard right crosses and shrug it off?


Rocky KO8 Calzaghe!!!


Grebfan9
www.firstroundboxing.com

 

Marciano was a great puncher at heavyweight, yes Calzaghe is a great fighter of this generation but Mitchell dropped him Marciano would knock him out inside of five the minute he lands properly it's over.

 

He landed KO blows against people with defenses just as fast. Marciano would get to him.

 

Marciano didn't ever run 12 miles a day.

He weighs too much to do that for a start and such a ridiculous number of miles would have left Rocky a horrible collection of slow-twitch muscle fibres.