Classic Welterweight battle

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  1. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    How does a matchup between evenly sized 5 101/2 Oscar De La Hoya vs Rocky Marciano play out? Oscar has 5 inches of reach on him, can Rocky slip his jab and get inside or does Oscar pick him apart from long range? I have been wrestling with this one for some time? Help a brother out, who ya got?
     
  2. Unforgiven

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    It's unfair to put a midget like Marciano in with a full grown welterweight.
    Yes, he might have been 5'10 1/2 (according to white Italian American reporters of his era) but he had short arms and sloped shoulders, no muscle mass (I believe he had some muscle wasting disease) and he went bald before his 13th birthday, he also had two left feet (possibly caused by childhood polio?)
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    He'd clearly qualify as DISABLED in the more enlightened age of the 1980s and 1990s, nevermind this century, and it would probably be a crime to allow him to box (outside of a boxing exhibition at the Paralympics).
    Also, bear in mind, in the age of day-before-weigh-ins, he'd be no more than a super-bantamweight.
     
  3. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    De La Destroya smacks Macaroni's ass into the ground.

    Cuts him good like a plump hog on the spitfire.

    Macaroni does better against fighters his own size, like Michael Carbajal or Jimmy Wilde, who only have slight size advantages against Ramen Macaroni.
     
  4. roughdiamond

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    It's a shame Macaroni couldn't get the modern cure for this, steroids.

    Then he could live up to David Tuaminator and Dyke 'The President' Indestructible.
     
  5. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    I pick Lyle by KO based off his performance against Foreman, even though I haven't watched any of his other fights

    Oh wait wrong thread
     
  6. George Crowcroft

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    Missmatch, Marciano would have his whole body jerked back by every jab, and every left hook Nicole landed would eat at Rocky's soul

    In fact the only welterweight I'd favour against Olivia is Primo himself
     
  7. West of Hollywood

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    Actually fat bald standing beside Liston version of Marciano vs. prime DLH would be interesting.
     
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  8. roughdiamond

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    Yes, it would be an interesting eating competition.

    Oscar beats him at coke sniffing, though.
     
  9. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    The real competition is who looks better in pantyhose
     
  10. roughdiamond

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    ooh, naughty boy!

    I bet Charley Goldman was lucky at those training camps...
     
  11. PhillyPhan69

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    I figure the dual left feet of the lumbering uncoordinated Rock leaves him lurching clumsily head first into the waiting face of DLH! Fight gets ruled a no contest (some think Rock should be DQ’d as it looked intentional) as DLH is unable to continue in the 3rd.
     
  12. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    I take gay la hoya by UD in THAT fight
     
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  13. roughdiamond

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    Yes, the Destroya has special... utensils... at his disposal.
     
  14. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    C’mon guys give a serious answer as to how Rocky gets inside that long jab or go home!

    Please serious replies only from here on out
     
  15. roughdiamond

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    De La Hoya boils Ramen with his superior firepower and long reach.