Lennox Lewis vs Rocky Marciano

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  1. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    I answered your question with a question.

    You think film quality has no effect on the ability to visualize how a fight will go?
     
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  2. Monnever

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    The question doesn't make sense when like I said mutiple people have made comments saying how good rock was they can see his vids even though his videos aren't in good quality
     
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  3. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    The answer to my question is the answer to your question.
     
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  4. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    No he wasn’t!!

    The Rock was a heavyweight!

    The fighters you want to compare him with are Super heavyweights.

    get it right!
     
  5. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    Rocky was a heavyweight.

    stop saying he was a light heavyweight.

    He wasn’t.

    The future invented Superheavyweights. A new weight class that could not, and did not, exist before the post sports science era.

    Pre sports science, giants were shark bait for Dempsey and Louis. Those guys needed the science of the future to make them relevant.
     
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  6. Monnever

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    So that means either means you have bad vision or the people who said they seen rock matches are lying on his great skills cause how can they see he had great skills if what you said is true the videos are in horrible quality so no one can make them out to analyze if he fought good or not
     
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  7. Monnever

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    No he wasn't cause if he was to he placed in lennox era the hw division doesn't start at the weight he was he is what I called him a lhw

    Even if you were to call him a hw he looks to be a basic fighter compared to the era lennox fought in and small compared to lennox at hw who looks to be big are you saying rock was close to his size

    Cause it is no match where rock looks to be 10 pounds smaller which wouldnt mean a whole lot but he looks to be way smaller then that does he look way bigger to you then the videos I seen of him
     
  8. Snails

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    Lennox would obliterate Mobbed up Marciano.
     
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  9. Monnever

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    How do you know that? cross said the videos we have on rock are in bad quality so nobody can make them out to judge if he fought good or bad.
     
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  10. choklab

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    when he fought it was THE heavyweight division. Rocky Marciano is a top ten all time great at heavyweight.

    This was before Superheavyweights came into existence in large enough numbers to make a new division in the Amateur code.

    Rocky Marciano held the heavyweight title didn’t he?

    Lennox Lewis held the Superheavyweight Gold medal. He won the Superheavyweight Olympic title.

    Lennox Lewis was among the first generation of Amateur Super Heavyweights to turn pro into the wrong division.

    Did Lewis stop being a SHW when he turned pro?



    No. Lewis is another weight class bigger. And that’s how it should be observed.

    No. Rocky looks like a heavyweight as they were in the period before the post sports science era.
     
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  11. Monnever

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    Ok agreed but who did rock fight who was a master at using his range and great power and who was as heavy as lennox
     
  12. choklab

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    No, Rocky didn’t fight anyone like that because the modern SHW had not been invented yet.

    There would be no Lennox Lewis until then.

    Guys as big as modern SHWs had not yet benefited from the science to enable them to become modern SHWs. And without these advances guys that size had historically been shark bait at world level for traditional sized heavyweights.
     
  13. Monnever

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    Ok so if rock never fought anybody that big and great at skill as lennox why is it people here saying rock would win i see lennox running through him and fast
     
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  14. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    I very obviously did not say that.

    Reread my post. I said this:

     
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  15. Monnever

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    What's the difference with what I said is it not the same just worded different

    chok a legend just said how rock never fought anybody like lennox how did he see that when you said rock's video quality is so bad its hard to figure out how he fought

    It cant be the video as I said earlier that's so bad when people have said how rock fought on mutiple pages on this topic of how he fought they can see it even though the quality is bad so I dont understand how you said his video is so bad its hard to say how he would do in this fight