Rocky Marciano replaces Jack Dempsey against Willie Meehan

I believe Jack Dempsey was 1-2-2 against Willie Meehan, in 4 rounders. Meehan was tricky, especially in 4 rounders, and was excellent (for whatever reasons) at doing just enough of the right things to win the favor of a referee from that time. I would say, under the exact same circumstances, and fighting in Dempsey's era, Rocky Marciano would probably not do any better than Jack did.

 

I agree, If Rocky's at the same stage of his career as Jack was and it's a four-round fight, the results might very well be the same

 

I fear Shay is right. Meehan sounds like he had a high workrate for those rounds and was awkward and tough enough to make it through the firestorm a guy like Dempsey brought. Marciano's true forte was the deep waters, where he simply ran his opponents out of gas and crushed them. 4 rounds isn't long enough.

 

Since I think Marciano was better than Dempsey, I'll say the Rock pulls it out.

 

Well...

1) He fought everyone. Nino Valdez is not the same thing as Harry Wills, and we all know that.
2) He beat great fighters, even if they were a bit past it.
3) Retired undefeated

 

I think all of those things are true because he had more confidence in his fighting ability, the reason for it being that the was better.

 

No Meehan was very good at speed boxing specifically. Him beating Dempsey in a 4 rounder isn't really random. He beat Langford and a host of other ATGs at speed boxing he was much more capable at 4 rounders then boxing proper.