Carmine Vingo

Probably not worth a response but I don’t hate Marciano at all.

 

Thanks.

Yeah, and the forum narrative that the sky was the limit for Vingo but for this fight seems to be in tension with some of the writeups I stumbled across for his other fights. None of it is conclusive but I thought it was pretty interesting.

Brave fighter who deserves respect for his performance. It goes without saying but it’s a shame that his career was cut short so tragically.

 

The problem is that there's no way to build up the Muscato win into something that might have some bearing on head-to-head matchups.

Muscato was a former middleweight/light-heavy who already had 20 losses, including 4 in a row, with the last being a knockout by Joe Walcott less than two months prior. No way to talk him up as some kind of physically-imposing big man who was much better than modern fans realize.