"original thread" Such as it is, but the Turpin thing is your baby, and in fact so is the Don C obsession as I think almost everyone else would say this was Marciano's least impressive performance on film. What is impressive about Marciano is that he stopped them all--Walcott, Charles, Louis, Moore, Layne, Matthews, etc. No one considers it impressive that he stopped Don C.
"Walker said he usually handled the bigger guys easier" I have heard the same said of Harry Greb by some who watched him fight.