Could Larry Holmes or Rocky Marciano beat Deontay Wilder?

Sonny,

What are you, 5'7/130 max if I remember your pic from ESB years ago.

Put your big boy pants on, have your significant other, if you have one, otherwise your mother will suffice, iron your gym shorts and pack you a lunch, hit the next Boxing Gym and pick a 6'5 plus fighter in there and do some sparring.....and then get back to me how height and reach dont matter.

 

I have done work in the security sector.

There are no weight classes there.

 

Prime Holmes batters the **** out of Wilder.

 

Modern revisionism?? Who in the world has propelled him to mythical heights? My deceased football coach’s son, who just turned 84 attended almost all of Marciano’s fights in Long Island and said Tunney, Jack Johnson, a prime Walcott, and a prime Holyfield would’ve beat Marciano.

Also, size works both ways. Marciano struggled with a lot of sub 200lb guys, since they are harder to land on and guys like Walcott, Charles, and Moore are easily more experienced than anyone Wilder has faced. Even Joe Louis at his best had an extremely hard time with Conn and Louis was much better at putting his punches together than Wilder is. If Wilder and Joshua had to fight a bunch of experienced sub 200lb fighters that were mobile and very experienced their KO percentages would definitely be a lot lower.

 

Wilder absolutely gassed against Fury, and that fight had such a slow pace that I'm surprised they counted it as boxing.

Triple that pace at minimum and Wilder would gas mid rounds. You think he's going 15 with Marciano's pace, body work and pressuring?

 

I'm 6'1" 205lbs and spar with men 6'3" - 6'5" 220-240ish all the time. Your point?

 

Sure you are....

Dont be modest, let the cat out of the bag that Pro camps call you in all the time to spar and rough their fighters up.......whats you sparring record , 49-0 I reckon ?

 

Maybe, though you meant to say "hunched". But Sawhund ll said that he was 6' 7".
I think he is at least just a bit under 6' 9".

 

He did not look 2-3 inches taller than Wilder IMO, maybe 1 to 1 1/2, he is tall, make no mistake but IMO he is not 6'9.

 

He already schooled Wilder in sparring, what are you talking about ?

 

I was just addressing his comment about Janitor, Wilder would kill me! I wouldn't wanna spar him lol, nor any of the HW champs for the next 2-3 years

 

Security, uh ? Totally relevant

I feel safe now.

 

This. No way Is Fury 6’9”. I’ve met Wlder and he is around 6’5.5”, so I could believe Fury is around 6’7”. Ortiz is also another guy, who is over listed in my opinion, since he’s listed at 6’4”, but he was shorter than Malik Scott, who I used to see a lot because I know his trainer and Malik was 6’3” at the tallest. Jarrell Miller when he got interviewed by Everlast at least admitted that his real height was 6’2”.

 

Have you met any current fighters who you believe are their actual listed heights?