Most overrated aspects of a heavyweight?

"...cruisers like Marciano aren't allowed to fight modern day heavyweights. "
That clause does not in any way directly support the conclusion you seem (as I interpret you) to think it does. I've never seen you before, so I'll put to you a question to which I've yet to receive anything faintly resembling a clear answer, let alone what I would consider a good answer:

In the three or four years leading up to the creation of the cruiserweight division -right around the time, not incidentally, that the Spinks brothers were at their peak- what actual fights that took place would you have used to make a contemporaneous case that weight mismatches were becoming too common and that the proposed cruiserweight division was needed or even in any way helpful?

 

I think Bowe is like Tyson that way: We'll never really know how good they were (or weren't) and can only make educated guesses.
(That's true of almost all fighters of course, but it's exceptionally true of them.)

 

Marciano's intangibles , his heart and will to win ... of course he had it but so did many others like Frazier, Ali, Holmes, Holyfield and many , many others ..

How can we say that about Tyson ? He won the title and dominated the division for three years . He defended the title many times .. he was no one fight wonder ? He defeated eight world title holders. His prime was only a few years but it was a hell of a prime.

 

Marciano's power is surely overrated. Not by his fans, but his worshipers. According to them, size means zilch. He punches harder than Foreman, Tyson, Louis, Frazier and now of course Wilder. No objectivity when it comes to the Rock.

 

Lennox Lewis's power is OVERRATED? Wow...

 

I can't think of seeing anyone say Rocky hit harder than Foreman.

 

That's a headscratcher.

 

Lennox had dynamite in that right hand

 

Yeah, but he might be still better. For instance he might have have blown away Holyfield and Lewis if they'd all met prime for prime, or he might just have gotten schooled by a narrower margin than in their actual fights.
We'll never know.

I have my own opinion, but I don't see how anyone can say either way with more than about 70% confidence at most, which isn't very satisfying to me.

 

I guess you if you think Lewis power is overrated then it’s easy to see why you think Vitali’s chin is overrated and vice versa. I disagree with both personally

 

This is total compostable horsesh*t.

Marciano never went to death's door with a fighter like Joe Frazier. Ali did and made Frazier's corner quit.

Marciano never got decked by puncher of Ernie Shaver's power and came back to KO him.

Go sell your p*ss poor argument to the fools down the road.

 

That is an astonishing statement. I can say that I have never heard anyone rate the hearts and will to win of Ali or Holmes less than top of the top. And you base this strong opinion on what exactly ?