Could ANYONE Have Outboxed Marciano?

Marciano had extremely underrated head movement,and could punch hard rouds 1 through 15. He fought good boxers,yet always came out on top.

In my opinion you would need great stamina,a huge reach advantage and great boxing skills - someone like Ali would be the best opponent to beat Marciano....

I still think Marciano wins against Ali in a late round KO......given that,I think the best option;someone who would have the best shot against Marciano would have been Joe Frazier.

Good jaw,with a reach advantage. Good head movement;better than Rocky's,with great power. It would have been a close fight......

Other than these two opponents,I don't see that many heavyweights who could decisively beat Rocky.

 

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I can't imagine Lewis being too fast for Marciano.... Size may play a role, but through Lewis's career his chin was very accessible. It was good, but accessible, and that would hurt him.

 

Mike Tyson would give him hell. As much as anyone else possibly could.

 

How many heavyweights from the top ten could Marciano have beat, really? I find it hard conceptualizing a hypothetical match-up wherein he'd obviously dominate

 

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If a fighter is good enough to be ranked in your top 20 then he ought to be able to give your number one a fairly stiff argument.

So no I don't think that he would necisarily dominate any of my top 10.

 

every thread on Marciano that comes up they say he would take Ali cuz look what Frazier did to Ali in their first fight. That WASN'T PEAK ALI. Peak Ali was fighting in the mid 60s. Mid 60s Ali would've gave Ali 1971 a good beating. How a man who is out of the game for 3 1/2 years comes back and is called PEAK is beyond a joke. Unbelievable.

 

Greg Page, Pinklon Thomas, Tim Witherspoon.

 

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These overweight Heavyweights could run for a few rounds before they got there holes handed to them

 

I think that, judging from the only film that exists of Corbett in a long fight, he fought at a lower pace--especially considering that the account of the fight I read claimed he was "fighting too fast". Against Jackson, who was a skilled, powerful counterpuncher like Fitz, he would probably have fought at a reasonable but not exceptional pace.

True, but Kilrain was not put away, and Sullivan took a 20+ round beating before going down from exhaustion. Corbett did knock Fitz down, but it wasn't a 10-count and Fitz was a middleweight...as were Choynski and Mitchell, who were his other best knockouts. He may have hit hard enough to sting you when he wanted to, but I get the feeling that Rocky won't have much trouble taking his punches.

Yes, he was good at hitting you as he was coming in. I just see Rocky's physicality and unexpectedly high workrate taking its toll. Corbett's skills may be good in the clinches, but it was never his "best strategy". Much of his energy would have to go into controlling Rocky, who I believe to be the physically stronger, more active man as well as the harder hitter.

 

Ezzard Charles lost to 2 fighters in the year before Marciano beat him. Don't overrate the win. Yeah he was great and it was a good victory for Marciano but this place stinks of hypocrisy. Ali beat Liston who was undefeated in 10 years and gets nowhere near the same amount of credit. Liston was ****, blah, blah, blah. Well he must've been well **** to be undefeated in 10 years. Go figure.

 

The crucial diference is that Liston had been up untill the small hours of the morning at the craps table swilling back whisky the night before he fought Ali.

Charles had seen better days when he fought Marciano but hecame to give the fight of his life. The every great fighter has one last great fight in them bout.