Is Rocky Marciano The Most Overated Heavyweight Of All Time?

How you think he would do against Foreman has absolutely nothing at all with Rocky Marciano not being great. Marciano was not an idea. He existed and proved himself great in his own lifetime. An idea you have about something that can't happen won't erase what a fighter achieved in his own time.

 

I agree Tysons more dangerous for Foremani see Rocky go like Frazier quick and to easily overpowered. Rocky getting up but just knocked down again..Tyson not as one sided he's gonna land some heavy shots..

 

An exhibition match is a whole different ballgame, was the fix just an excuse then or did Dempsey GTFO by a Fireman?? Either way it doesn't look good for Dempsey...

 

He has earned his status as a great, no question. His legacy endures and he is one of the most popular fighters on this forum.
His knockout of Walcott just may be the most iconic knockout of all time.

That all said, I think it's hard for fans to accept that certain big heavyweights may have swept him aside rather easily. Foreman, Liston, Tyson, Bowe, Lewis and others may have made mincemeat of him.

Fans seem to take umbrage to this since it was Rocky we're talking about...a man who never lost.
Perphaps it is just as well for them that we'll never know.
Personally I am a big fan. But he had shortcomings, just like everyone else.

 

It's your opinion that those larger fighters would beat Marciano. There is no proof they would. In the hwt division size is never been a predictor of success. Certainly Ali who is rated by most everyone as the best including myself would have his hands very full trying to beat Rocky. He said so himself. B

 

You still don't get it do you, an exhibition match and a real fight are two completely different animals...

 

This does not prevent Marciano being great in his own lifetime. These are just ideas.

 

even you yourself say "May have swept him aside" nobody knows. In life we know and you accept he was great. It is not an overation to say Marciano was great.

 

In recent years I've see more people objecting to the idea that Marciano would beat the likes of Frank Bruno, Mike Dokes and Ray Mercer ... than objecting to the idea that Liston and Foreman might beat him.

 

Absolutely.
I think fans sometimes worry that IF it were to be magically proven that Rocky would lose to modern big heavyweights, that what he represents and what he achieved is somehow diminished.
Not to me it doesn't.

 

Or Sonny Liston, or Earnie Shavers, or Lennox Lewis, or Vlad Klitchko, and plenty of others for that matter.

I think the Marciano worshippers get confused between him and Sylvester Stallone to be honest with this " will to win " cr ap.:rofl

All the " will to win " in the world don't mean sh it when you are sitting on your ass, looking up at the other guy, knowing he can put you straight back down there again if you do manage to get up.

 

Haha. If Don King can invent the word trickeration I'm inventing overation.:good