Fighters That Would Probably Stop Marciano?

I hoped at the time he would fight Berbick not spoon ! By far the most dangerous

 

So did welterweight Errol Spence.

 

Lionel Butler deserves a mention.

 

-Like a slow, short-armed man against a bunch of fast, big, mobile, skilled fighters.

He'd probably win some and lose some.

 

Who in gods name is claiming George is some monster Foreman "was this monster" in his second career? What a load of trash.

Sorry Mac

 

Who were his biggest mobile opponents?

6'0/196lb/74-inch 38-yo Jersey Joe Walcott, who fought a fairly flat-footed fight? 6'0/185lb/73-inch Ezzard Charles?

 

I would pick him over everybody that Holmes beat, in a single match up.

The 80s was not an exceptionally strong era either.

 

The reason that he was not fighting opponents of this type, is because the technicians beat them all.

The person whop finally beat Holmes, was more along the lines of a Marciano opponent, than the type of fighter that you are mentioning.

 

It is possible, but it is more likely that he wouldn't.

The irony is that some people here would give him more credit for beating these guys, than for defeating the men who beat them, simply because they are bigger fighters.

That is the ridiculous turn the dialogue has taken on this issue.

It would be just as much a question mark over a fighters record, if they had dominated an era of big power punching heavyweights, but there happened not to be a skilled technician around.

 

You have named them yourself.

Valdez and Baker were probably as good as a lot of the contenders of the 80s.

What I am saying, is that the person who eventually dethroned Holmes, was a former light heavyweight who was a skilled technician.

It was the Ezzard Charles of the era, and not the Nino Valdez of the era, who finally turned the trick.