Dempsey vs Marciano

Dempsey was one of the fastest heavyweights in terms of hand speed imo. Marciano one of the slowest. Literally no comparison whatsoever.

 

I hope there wasn't much because the "computer" aspect was just a marketing gimmick.

Murray Woroner was a Miami radio personality who also produced radio shows. When he saw an ad for a new computer, he made up the whole shtick about feeding information into a computer to get the outcomes of fights.

The NCR 315 computer was basically a word processor and a calculator. Really large businesses used them for accounting purposes and to store financial records on punch cards instead of in filing cabinets.

Since basically nobody knew what a computer did in the 1960s, other than it sounded "futuristic" and men and children were playing robots on TV, Woroner got away with his promotion.

Woroner just wrote radio scripts of fights and produced a series of radio shows that he sold to others. Then he made the movie with Ali and Marciano.

The computer aspect was a marketing gimmick to sell a fantasy boxing series on the air, because it wouldn't have been as big a seller if someone said "a Miami morning DJ" wrote and produced a fantasy boxing series.

They radio series has as much merit as a poster on this board writing down how he thought a fight between Dempsey and Marciano would go and then posting it on Youtube.

 

Good Lord. Yes, I'm fully aware John L. Sullivan isn't fighting Jim Braddock. (LOL).

I'm pointing out that there was NO computer aspect. It was a marketing gimmick. That's all I was pointing out ... in case someone actually believed a "computer" provided the results.

The computer mentioned was a 5,000 pound calculator. That's all. Saying a "computer" provided the results gave it a "futuristic" feel (in the 1960s) and a sense that the results weren't some guy's opinion ... when, in fact, that's all they were, some guy's opinions.

 

Vicious vicious fight and no one in HW history is more vicious than Dempsey.
Dempsey wins. Dempsey is the natural born killer.

 

Neither were boxers really, they were creme of the crop street fighters, this would be a bloody battle. I'd give the edge to Dempsey, had more speed and size on the rock.

 

The dempsey -louis computer bout was the best one and well done

 

Ahh... Dempsey Marciano threads really dredge up the prime intellgencia of the board.

Don't truat the veracity of computer fights... Wow. Really? The things I learn here