Convince me that Rocky Marciano beats Lennox Lewis and Oleksandr Usyk

I don't see Marciano's clumsy footwork, balance issues and T-Rex reach doing him any favors, and see him getting stopped by Usyk somewhere between rounds 6 and 9. The Usyk we see now still has tread on his tires and isn't some relic from an era previous who is just hanging on.

 

They can't op, they're too evolved

 

Or maybe they're much bigger, yeah Usyk is much bigger too, stronger, and much better fighters. Rocky never beat a fighter as good as them who was in his prime.

 

I don't know why people are counting the Rock out, Lewis has been hurt and yes knock out. Marciano really needs one good smash, and it will be all over if he landed it. Lewis was never good at recovering.

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It's worth noting that Mihai Nistor who is only 6'0 with a 69 inch reach gave Usyk one of his toughest fights of his career in the WSB.

And he wasn't exactly scientific he just went straight at Usyk pressuring him with his awkward style.

 

Rahman was 6"2 1/2", 225 poundss, and had a 82" reach.

 

Then it is also worth noting that Marciano lost 1/3 of his amateur bouts.

 

Usyk was close to his physical prime vs Nistor.

 

He was nowhere near his boxing prime. Nowhere near it. This is just ludicrous. And he won.

 

What makes you think that ? He wasn't having to rehydrate it was a Heavyweight fight with no head gear 5 rounds.

Usyk had tons of experience at this time with almost 400 amateur fights it was very close to his physical prime go watch his fight vs Joyce in WSB and tell me it isn't.

He was 26 years old not some young green prospect.

 

The Usyk of 2025 destroys that guy fighting in 2013. It's not even close. Sorry if you don't have the eyeballs for that.

And by the way, Usyk was the same age as was Marciano when he lost to Coley Wallace.

 

So you think the slower 38 year old version of Usyk at Heavyweight looks better than the younger fresher version of Usyk who was considerably faster, sharper, with better workrate ?

Obviously you haven't watched his WSB fights or his early Cruiserweight fights.

 

Usyk was closer to his prime in 2013 than he is now, for sure.