Do people REALLY believe...

No, Rocky weighed what he did because he wanted to. He trained to unbelievable extents so that his stamina would be the best. Watch his fights and see him throwing bone crushing punches into the final round. A heavier Marciano would not have gone undefeated.

 

Ya, I don't watch fights either. I just do a tale of the tape and call it a night.

 

1. We've seen that Lewis can be knocked out with a big right hand also. Klitschko has had a lot of trouble taking punishment as well.

2. 10 out of 10...? Right....

 

I wouldn´t count out Louis - he was special.

 

It is embarrassing, simply embarrassing for those who think Marciano would compete.

He'd probably be outclassed and made a mockery of by the likes of Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler.

 

Ice man, I couldn't agree less. Most boxing cliche's don't apply to Marciano.Like "a good big man always beats a good little man".Rockys style was designed by his expert trainer,Charlie Goldman, to negate his size disavantages.He'd absoloutly kill Holyfield , who was too easy to hit for a damaging puncher like The Rock.The big difference between Marciano and Lennox Lewis was when Lennox went down he stayed down.Marciano would just get up more pissed off .Marciano was a one in a million,the likes of him never to be seen again.

 

The cliches didn't even exist back then. Featherweights used to beat HWs, the whole sport was shocking like that. The Rocks biggest fights came against MWs like Charles, whom were able to hurt him. Marciano would be embarrassed by Wlad or Lewis, or Holyfield.

Marciano is about Clinto Woods level, I bet he'd struggle to beat him even.

 

:good :good :good :good exactly 60 pounds is alot how many fighters do you know could handle bigger men that easily.

i think size can help becuase you can gain a bit more of a shoulder hieght to jab and to punch off but when your that small with that short a reach you wont win in the punching becuase they aint going to be willing to trade and they aint going to try and bomb you out so a jabbing match it will be which marciano didnt have.

tyson worked well becuase he was very agile and super quick with power on every shot and was ferociuos...even in that bone crusher didnt fight him just stay on the outside and made tyson look a bit one paced.

small fighter i think can do well in the higherwieghts just you have to be reailtic that the natural wieght difference is just too great.

 

In this era, Rocky would get stopped on cuts a lot.




The man bled like a stuck pig.

 

Come on, it's common sense. Of course not. It was a different era. You can't compare the two. The HW during that era were much smaller. You just didn't have guys close to being as big as they are today. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

 

No one denied that a great smaller guy could beat an average, unmotivated fat big guy. Even at that, Holyfield still had a full 20 pounds of muscle on Marciano.
What happened when a big skilled guy (Bowe) fought a great small guy (Holyfield)? He decisively beat him and came out as the fresher man despite being outlanded 2:1 during the first 4 or 5 rounds.

 

You can put him down, and he'll always come up.
You can outbox him, but he'll always put pressure on you.

Rocky's power is awesome, it's underrated, I've seen him hit bags like I never seen others do, Rocky has dazzling one punch KO power, and yes, he can with ease lay out guys like Lewis or Klitschko.
Rocky was a bad ass mother****er with bad intentions, you can put him down but he is hard to keep there.

 

No way. It was a different era. The game has changed. All sports evolve. Athletes are very much bigger and stronger than they were back then. I believe there are only a couple athletes from their era who could compete at todays level. Jim Brown and Wilt Chamberlain...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaGs1_1RGA


Watch from 00:06 - 00:13 - Marciano's suzieQ could put anyone to sleep.

 

I've already stated that weight has very little to do with power. Tyson was surely a little faster than Marciano, but overall I'd say Marciano's right hand was as good as they come. Very compact, precise and quick.

That right hand would get in on these big clinchers who fall in halfway through the 6th. Of course if they landed a clean right hand before the 6th they'd probably stop Marciano.

But don't underestimate his speed. Marciano was alot smaller than most of these 6'1 240lb heavyweights today. By that extreme he was also a bit swifter and more flexible, allowing him to get a right hand off easier.

Look at Holyfield for example. With that much muscle the man rarely had a short compact right hand. He invested in the hook and uppercut, both semi-wide punches. That Marciano right hand was as straight as an arrow. Think Tyson over Botha. That kind of right hand.