How would the rock vs Patterson have gone down?

mcvey · Mar 13, 2017

SuzieQ49 said: ↑

Marciano late ko
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How you doing Suze?

Fergy · Mar 14, 2017

scartissue said: ↑

I'll throw another wrinkle out there just for the sport of it. There is no guarantee of course that Patterson would have been the chosen one for the magical 50-0. For one, he was still a light heavy at the end of the '55 ratings and just broached the division in early '56. Rocky last fought in September I believe and negotiations would have already started before the end of '55. But the top guys - I think - when Marciano retired in April of '56 would have been Bob Baker, Hurricane Jackson, Nino Valdez, Johnny Holman and probably Patterson just squeezing in there. I left out Moore because Rocky had just beaten him. Looking at it from Rocky's canny manager Al Weill's perspective, and wanting Rocky to go out with a bang, I would have stayed away from the speedy Patterson, the big guys like Valdez, Baker and Holman and gone for Hurricane Jackson. The perfect opponent. He had just nicked a highly controversial decision over Baker in early '56 (I think), he was small and wouldn't duck if his life depended on it. Ergo, the perfect opponent to see off Rocky. Again, just throwing a different angle on this.
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Good one mate. Had a bit of a what if to story. Make s it more interesting and gets people thinking about other scenarios. It could well have gone that way with Patterson been bypassed. U could make another thread with that. I like it.

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