My Take on Marciano

Well, Charles and Moore were light heavyweights that moved up, and were past their primes. Joe Louis was a shell and Walcott was 37 years old. Wins on a resume can be voided as great by circumstances, geez, Camacho has Duran and Ray Leonard on his.

 

There are arguments that Charles, Moore and Walcott were all prime

Personally I subscribe to the theory that Moore and Walcott were

Also, Camacho wasn't undefeated nor lineal, never the best man in his era

 

Hard to describe prime as past 37 years old .

 

Til you look at Bob Fitzsimmons and Bernard Hopkins

 

Oh, and Archie Moore was I believe just a couple months short of his 42nd birthday when he fought Marciano. Hard case to make for prime there.

 

Moore was 38 and coming off a 23 fight win streak including atgs on that resume like Harold Johnson.

 

Moore 10 years later fought Ali if I remmember!But you never mentioned that because you are obviously Marciano hater are you?
Didn't Moore beat Durelle few years later?

 

Yeah hard to describe man who won last 5 fights before that and knocked JJW!

 

Tyson beat even older Holmes and also was beaten by ex cruiser who was 6 years older than him called Holyfield!If you compare that with Rocky then you would see that Rocky wins were better!
Louis was younger than Holmes and didn't have that layoff!
And Charles was only 3 years older unlike Holyfield who was past his best!
Tyson lost Marciano won!
And you still hate Marciano?

 

Sad thing this RBV...

 

I hope you were joking

 

Walcott is the one I'm most confident in, Moore, you just need to read the numbers for

 

Hahah yes. Archie moore in his prime at hw when he was nearly 40 years old and the funny thing is that they think that anybody will believe that it is truth

 

How dangerous were Walcott Charles and Moore when Marciano fought them?

I see Waclott (first time) and Moore, as being better versions of themselves than Charles was.

Walcott whatever his age, had just won the title and defended it successfully, and he obviously had no intention of giving it up. I also feel that his performance against Marciano, was a bit better than those of Charles or Moore.

Charles had clearly gone back a bit since he was champion, but he gave Marciano two competitive fights because he was such a great fighter, and had a bit of luck thrown in.

Now Moore was at his heavyweight peak on paper. There might be a better hypothetical heavyweight version of Moore, but it never existed.

I feel that Marciano basically controlled the fights with Charles and Moore, apart from the fluke injury in the second Charles fight. I don't think that he was in control in the first fight against Waloctt.