Right, that´s a well-known fact, but the Marciano haters don´t believe/ see it because of their hate... Marciano retired, because he knew he wouldn´t have a chance against the iron chinned pitbull Floyd was (especially at that point, he was a teeny)
Most of you guys complain about fighters who handpick their opponents. It's a phenom that noone mentions those 49 handpicked opponents. Marciano is the paradigm of handpicking opponents. You're biased,that's all.
What has Italianess to do with that? Is boying now a teamsport? Btw, I read never comments of you, only when you "attack" me with some brilliant parols about Italians and so on, what have we done to you, has your wife left you because of an Italian or what?
You´re biased, I´m not. Even fighters I don´t like that much, I try (and I make it) to give them the respect they deserve. He didn´t handpick his opponents, he fought the best who were in that era, who else should he have fought? Don´t come now with names like Valdes...
Rocky fought handpicked opponents at times sure, but who hasn't? Every young kid needs to learn, doesn't he? At the end of the day, he beat all the guys that they put in front of him. Who would you have him fight to sway your opinion?
It´s always the same, when some idiots (luckily only few here on ESB) don´t have logical arguments anymore, they come with stuff like "You´re Italian", "you´re biased" and bull**** like this...
Bull****. Maxim had a different style. Floyd killed Archie Moore in '56. Marciano's style was made for Patterson. Patterson KO8 Marciano in '56 or '57.
Floyd had at the best a mediocre chin, he was floored by fighters like Rademacher who hadn´t one single pro fight!!! And you can´t come with the weight **** now, who´s in reality only an advantage, because Floyd was also pretty small for a HW... Even the biggest Ali-era nut hugger say that Patterson was tailor-made for Marciano...
You're confusing yourself prickhead. There are no logical arguments to praise the legacy of Rocky Marciano.
I don´t praise his career, I only give him the respect he deserves, like I do with every fighter, whether I like them or not... it calls fairness, a noun you probably never heard...
Look at yourself how stupid you are, you critizice Marciano for facing only old, washed up LHW´s, but now you brag with Patterson´s win over an even older Moore... woah, how logical! btw, speed isn´t everything in boxing, otherwise the example (Patterson) we´re speaking about right now would have been almost unbeatable...
If the fight did take place. Marciano would have most probably got to Patterson in the late rounds and knocked him out. Only after being thoroughly outclassed for the majority of the fight. However, Luigi I do think you are very biased toward Marciano. It's ok for you to bring up the race card and say "you guys dont like Marciano because he was a white Italian" etc. But when someone accuses you of being biased for Rocky due to your Italian heritage you don't like it. That's a good example of the pot calling the kettle black.