Lewis vs. Marciano

Bull**** to this modern training and dieting and supplements crapola................. In that sense, we are talkin' STEROID useage....... Guys like "Louis, Ali, Foreman, Holmes & Lenny Lewis" didn't seem to need any of that junk....... Only smaller men trying to move up by adding a serious amount of bulk and muscles to their frames.... Guys like: "Paz, Jones, Spinks, Mosley & Holyfield." Christ, these guys were doin' some sort of hanky panky at one time or another..... I don't care if a few NEVER got CAUGHT!! Just use common sense and clear vision to see the truth there.... Jesus...

MR.BILL

EXTRA:

Shannon Briggs was always big, but he sure as hell got HUGE by the early 21st century..... By the time he KO'd Sergei Liakhovich for the WBO title in 2006, Briggs looked JUICED to the maxi-pad..........

 

Rocky Marciano was naturally trained like a fighter should be.... End of story...... Marciano had to diet and train hard to slim down to the 184 to 191 pound range and be fit to fight hard..... Had Marciano juiced hard like a modern fighter and come in somewhere around 215 pounds, he'd be bulky, slow, with no stamina..... Marciano never complained about feeling weak or drained at roughly 188 pounds..... That tells me he was finely tuned at them weights in which he fought at...... Peace....

MR.BILL

 

More sensible would be matching up Rocky Marciano against the cruiserweight version of Evander Holyfield.

 

Well, everytime he showed one of his bouts he complained about in-fighting, saying that he needed room for his Big punches. He even said that he didn't like to fight on the inside because of that. That's not me talking, it's Rocky.

 

Lewis would box like he did against Tua. Rock would have a punchers chance, Rahman style, of flattening Lewis with a single punch, but probably loses a decision.

 

Marciano, and easier than people think.

 

Tua came in fat, way undertrained and overfed.

Tua also did not make a sincere effort.

 

David Tua was about as bad against Lewis in 2000, in a sense, as was Buster Douglas was in his fight with Holy in 1990... Tua comes into the biggest fight of his life looking like a 253 pound slob..... I never trusted Tua ever again...... Peace....

MR.BILL

 

I'm never one to scribe in a positive fashion for Lewis... I think he was a boring fighter... too catious.. too limited in mixing it... etc. etc. etc.

Credit to Lennox, he used his own style in a fantastic fashion, allowing him to take full advantage of many great men. . He rarely looked to struggle, or become punished to the point of exhaustion... purely due to his sytyle.

The giant Lewis would have no trouble with Marciano....

Lewis would have no trouble with;
LaStarza
Cockell
Walcott
Charles
or OL' Archie either.

 

Marciano to win by dead leg.

 

I would expect Lewis to beat Marciano ,and all those you mentioned, though his style was not to my liking he was very effective with it, and possessed great physical advantages over Rocky.

 

Great joke... a real 'corker'... :good

 

I highly admire Marciano, but Lewis is a bad bad bad matchup for him. I give him more chances stunning Liston than Lewis.

 

A stiff Lewis's size I could see Rocky chopping down to size but not Lewis himself. Way too much size combined with good boxing ability for Marciano to overcome. All Lewis would have to do is stay out range, fight tall and use his 11" or 12" reach advantage to capture a points win. Rocky would be absorbing alot of punishment attempting to get in close amd even if he does Lewis would probably be able to smother him long enough to get the hell out of there. Rocky had to kill himself in training to beat men who were a helluva lot smaller than Lewis. As tough and conditioned as Rocky was I think we're asking a bit too much of him here. A prime focused and well trained Lewis would be too much even for the likes of Marciano even though it hurts me to admit it.

 

For all those picking an early Lewis KO.

Who exactly did Lewis KO early who resembled Marciano stylisticaly?

Nobody here is arguing that Marciano would KO Lewis in one round because he did it to Walcott.