Marciano p4p head to head.. a few thoughts

I would give Schmeling a good chance along with Dempsey. I strongly suspect that 'Simmons would pull it off as well.

Nevertheless, you have a strong case for Marciano as one of the best P4P fighters by the best criteria there is--that nobody could beat him at his best weight.

 

This is true. From his own weight down, there are no more than one or two guys in history who I might make even odds with Marciano.

 

Excellent post. I would rank him very highly pound for pound.

 

The only fighter his weight or less that I could make a clear favourite over him is Jack Dempsey. So I guess that makes him prety respectable in the pound for pound stakes.

 

And even than Dempsey is 50 50. I have it a pick em odds. One punch could change the tide of the fight. I dont see why people belive Billy Conn could do it. I see Marciano stopping Conn in 6 or 7 round.

 

Although I favor Marciano over Dempsey because of Stamina and late power,Dempsey has a chance, other than that,Holyfield would make a fight of it but again did not have the late power and would fizzle,Charles fought the fight of his life and got up for the 1st Marciano fight, he was not much older than Rocky and was close to his Heavyweight prime. I rate Rocky top 5-10 LB4LB

 

Wouldn't surprise me if he beat em all actually. Especially over 15 rounds.

 

I have a similar feeling on Marciano. As has been said, a Dempsey would be a close, hard fight that you could argue goes either way.

Evander Holyfield in his cruiserweight days was an excellent fighter, but I can't see him having the strength to keep Marciano off him for 12 or 15 rounds. I believe he could possibly take Rocky the distance, but he would feel like a truck had ridden over him in doing so.

Langford? I'll let other posters with more knowledge of him settle this one.

Nobody has mentioned Roy Jones yet. At 193 he would be in the ballpark weight wise, so I guess you could inlcude him.
I think honestly though, that it would be hard for Jones to contain Marciano for the entire 12 or 15 rounds, although he does have the speed to make Marciano look foolish at times.
However, he he couldn't budge Ruiz much, he ain't going to budge Rocky. Marciano KO 9.

 

Rocky takes Jones' head off when he catches him. Though I agree jones could make him look foolish at times. Marciano KO

 

I would pick Sam Langford to win a hard fought decision against Marciano.

 

How would you know what I have and haven't seen of Langford?

There isn't a wealth of footage, but there is enough to make a judgement.

 

Langford was no master boxer though. He was a brawler, he be playing RIGHT into Marciano's strong points. One of em is going to go in a brawl like that. And I think Marciano would win by ko, perhaps in the 5th round. I would not expect that match to last long one way or the other.