Rocky: A Face Forward Fighter?

Spot on.

 

Troll. You still have no response.

 

How did all of this Rocky Marciano furor get restarted? It is interesting how occasionally these things raise their heads and the vitriol certain topics repeatedly raise among hardcore fans! It is one of those topics that go to closely held beliefs and bias. Open kimono, not in any Harvey Weinstien sense, I am a Marciano fan who thinks he gets overrated by some insistent on basing your analysis on how he would fare h2h. Marciano's most effective defensive tool was his offense. He was not a defensive wizard and trying to develop a Tommy Loughran jab would have been silly. His willpower was inspirational! He honed his skills to fit both his innate strength and body type. He is a monument to maximizing what you have when you are there. He faced the best available and defeated them.

Personally I think both Rez and Mcvey are great posters each providing interesting and informative content from different approaches. Rez provides great video content of which he is rightly proud. I also appreciate that his respects the efforts and sacrafices of past greats. It is unnerving when some keyboard slob unnecessarily belittles a warrior. Rez approaches it often fom an admiring fan's perspective. He often trades analysis for appreciation. I seem to recall his take on Jim Corbett s skills compared to more more moderen to be befuddling. While I shook my head at his fawning I likely would not otherwise have seen the footage.
Mcvey takes on a historian or academic approach. Many are the time that he brings discussions back to reality with salient facts laid out clearly and concisely. His breadth and depth of knowledge is a meaningful contribution to any discussion inwhich he participates. I really appreciate his critical analysis even when he gets it wrong. I have had a few disagreements with him, I recall a prolonged disageement with him that got heated and somewhat personal years ago over the probative value of Mike Bruce's 1st round flash knockdown of Joe Frazier in Joe's 2ND pro fight. While it was a little irritating I appreciated that there was someone willing even to discuss it.

 

I don't remember the Bruce thing.I've nothing against Reznik, I just find hero-worship whom ever is the object of it to be a bit nauseating.He does make some good films!

 

Yeah the Rocky worship can definitely get tiresome.

Question : How many Rockys would take to the Nazis in 1939?"
Answer : "7, 3 if you gave them a gun."

I find the Liston cult while smaller even more delusional.

"Sonny was 47 years old when he beat Patterson!
His fist was so big he could not grasp it with his other hand!
They had to sew 2 gloves together so they could fit his hand in! "

 

Yup keep ducking every valid point and zeroing in on the fleischer quote to nitpick, all youve done is exposed your agenda!

If you were honest youd at least attempt to refute or debate something i wrote, but you wont because you'd expose yourself yet again.

 

Stop with this "agenda" stuff. If you disagree on technical stuff come back with a technical explanation to support your view. If you can't do that you are only exposing yourself as some one who has no answer. You accuse him of wanting something to be so. If it's not so. Show him. Can you do that?

Reznick can detail what he sees. He backs it up with film. And the part if the film he is talking about.

 

Being diplomatic earns no points. Take a stand. Take an extreme stand. You're either with us or against us. There is only Black and White, no gray.