Prime Frazier versus the versions of the challengers that faced Rocky. Walcott2 Charles 1 Charles 2 Lastarza2 C*ckell Moore Walcott goes out in 3 Charles 1 goes the distance and loses a dec . Charles 2 goes 9rds and is stopped by tko. Lastarza loses a dec C*ckell is stopped in 7rds Moore is stopped in 11 rds What do you say?
Yes you right, he did not have the power of rocky, because he had more, being naturally 20 pounds bigger
Frazier at his best was an incredible fighter. Truly difficult to beat. At his best when he lost a round the other man was worse off for winning it. He exhausted his opponents taking away the room they needed to put enough leverage into a punch. Forcing them to constantly reset, adjust and fight like mad just to keep Joe off of them. He was able to unload his best punch as frequently and accurately as most fighters use a jab. Incredible. I think over the same time span Joe could absolutely replicate Rocky with fairly equal wins. If he starts with the Mathis win by the time he gets to the Ali win it would cover the reign of Marciano. It's enough consistency to do it. It's only because Joe fought beyond the point that Rocky retired that he is not better thought of. Ellis, Quarry, chuvalo, Bonnavena, Ali. ..that's plenty good enough.
You only need to create a ten second concussion to record a knockout. If a fighter can record 3 minute comas over world class fighters (Walcott was out that long) do you seriously think carrying a bit more weight needs to (or could) improve that ability? Nobody needs to punch any harder than having Functional knockout power. Frazier and Rocky both had it. Rocky had Two handed power though.
Uh yes, i forgot the legendary chin of walcott.. Having drunk and knocked down a 70s ali (iron chin) is much more impresive to me A bit more weight? Lol he was around 20 pounds heavier. If you think that it is "a bit" more ok...
As Frazier's quality of opponents improved his actual ko's dropped off significantly , he only scored one in his last 14 fights and that was over Bob Foster who was never durable against heavyweights of any class. Marciano 's last 14 opponents saw him score 9 ko's against them. Frazier scored just 8 actual ko's in 37 fights. Marciano 33 in 49 fights. I don't see their power as comparable.
No.. You can be big and not a puncher. But if you got 2 punchers.. The natural bigger man hits harder. I guarantee you that ali did hit harder than bob foster
The only thing that you cant compare Is the bunch of garbage that rocky fought with the oposition of frazier. Archie moore, walcott, old Luis and the bunch of cans that rocky sttoped had iron chins sure haha
You think Frazier had better power than Marciano that's a point of view.I just disagree with it . Frazier's 8 kos are over: Bob Foster Doug Jones Al Jones3-5-2 Chuck Leslie 13-9-2 Don Smith 10-4-1 Mel Turnbow 6-3-1 Abe Davis 5-22-1 Ziggy 28-1-0 Marciano's top 8 are: Walcott x 2 57-17-2 Charles 85-11-1 Moore 149-19-8 Mathews 81-3-5 Reynolds 51-9-1 Layne 34-1-2 Beshore 30-13-1 Spot the difference? NB Frazier never ko'd a top ten ranked heavyweight . . Doug Jones had lost his last 2 fights.Bob Foster never beat a good heavyweight and these are Frazier's best 2 ko's! Marciano ko'd 2 men who held the heavyweight title ,one of them twice,and 4 men who were top ten rated contenders.
The argument " he hits harder because he stopped more ranked fighter" is pure nonsense. Ali stopped more ranked contenders than lyle or even shavers.holyfield stopped more ranked contenders than them.but who hits harder? There are tons of factors.. In this case my point is that frazier faced much more durable fighters than marciano did. Archie moore was an ancient Lhw when he faced rock with ****py chin.and how many rounds lasted with rocky? Bob foster was younger than moore and his chin was not worse if anything better than moore's.how many rounds lasted foster with frazier? Uh? I dont care if moore was ranked at hw blablabla it is irrelevant because probably foster would have been ranked too at hw in the era of moore