Does anyone really think Marciano would have lost if he he had 1-2 more fights?

I think Rocky could have managed a couple of more fights without a loss.
The emergence of Liston would have been the signal to retire,imo

 

I also suspect he would have managed 1-2 more wins, but given his style, he was going to start looking his boxing age. Patterson would have been very interesting.

 

patterson handspeed would have been an issue for post prime rocky, if he caught up, it would take a while.

 

I think there's a pretty good chance Patterson would have beaten him. I think Marciano is undeniably great and better than Patterson but he timed his retirement perfectly and his reputation has definitely benefitted from that.

 

Depends, his back had issues near the end. Rocky himself said he had 1-2 more fights left in him.

Patterson could have beaten Rocky in 1957 or 1958

 

1-2 definitely, but no more than 5 maximum.

 

Marciano would have cleaned up what was left and Patterson would have stayed in the lightheavyweight division, Cus was too wise to have him fight Marciano too much power and too much pressure. Floyd later advanced in his ability and experience but could never beat a Marciano, a Frazier, a Liston, a Louis or a Tyson or a Dempsey. Nino Valdes was already dominated & dropped for a 9 count by 5"10 Bob Satterfeild, Baker KO'd by Archie Moore. A few money fights like Willie Pastrano and possibly a few that poked their heads into the top 10 at the time but I dont think any would have much of a chance. However with Marciano's style and training regimin and injuries, plus getting robbed by Al Weil it would be hard for him to mantain that condition so I see Marciano getting out by the time he hits 35 or he would eventually come up short. Liston was inactive in 56 in didnt come back untill 2 years and 5 days later into 1958 and started to move up in 58 and 59 and didnt get a title fight until 1962 so I can not see Marciano being around in 58 -63 era, Rockys last fight was in 1955 so if the money was right he may stick around another 3 years 5 fights or so the most after that even with weak competition he would be frazzled IMO and could lose but had the money been right Marciano could have easily racked up another 5-6 fights fight 2x a year and retiring with a 54-0 record with 50-51 KO's but deep into 1958 would be a stretch

 

Patterson as much as I admire him ,doesn't fill me with Hope ,if he'd taken on Marciano in his first title shot .Wasn't Floyd getting tagged by old Archie even ?The more mature version of Floyd beat s Rock imo.

 

Marciano's injuries and hatred of his manager would **** with his training too much to beat Patterson after '56. If he had the fight immediately after the Moore fight, he'd win. But if he fought guys like Valdes and Satterfield beforehand, he'd likely come into the fight out of condition and be outpointed by Patterson, unless he managed to find suzie q, even when out of shape

 

Floyd, the keyword being “could”.

 

Possible, but I'd wager somewhere around the 12th round Floyd would get caught and hit the canvas , then a couple of knockdowns later it's over

 

Marciano could have defended against Olympic Champ Pete Rademacher in early Spring 1957. (just putting into perspective how ludicrous the real life Patterson vs Rademacher fight really was, with Patterson hitting the deck too).