Rocky Marciano VS Andre Ward

Good fight...


Ward wins the first couple rounds with his elite counterpunching..really capitalizes on hitting Marciano often with that left hook as the rock weaves right into it from his crouch...by round 6 Marciano really gets going and begins over whelming ward with his pressure and volume punching. Marcianos superior strength and power begin to take its toll...Marciano puts ward on the floor 4 times in rounds 6-7..rocky finishes ward off with a right hand in round 8.

 

Ward is a rythmn breaking spoiler that relies on timing and often mauling tactics to wear his opponents out. He's partial to dirty tactics too.

Rocky had no real rythmn to break, he'd be stronger than Ward in the clinches and he'd be very happy to return any dirty tactics with interest. Alas, he also hits harder and works faster than Ward, and his gas tank is unparalled.

This is an unfair matchup for Ward, but I would have paid to see Marciano put him to sleep and onto a stretcher.

Yeah, Ward would have had some moments. But the final outcome is not in doubt.

 

Marciano by ko but ward would mess him around .I'll say Ko 11 .

 

Onto a stretcher? Ouch!

 

I once slept on a camp bed that was essentially a stretcher on pegs. It was so uncomfortable I eventually got off and slept on the cement floor. Ward deserves no less!

 

Ward couldn't handle power of that magnitude.

I actually like Ward

 

Rocky is not the overrated trash kovalev. Here we are not talking about a big hw here.. Marciano did beat ezzard charles... He would kill ward

 

I think Kovalev definitely showed mental weakness (for a top boxer anyway) against Ward, Rocky is about as hard as they come.

 

Kovalev showed what happens when you don't do roadwork ...

 

I think a bit of both. His stamina was poor, but I've seen out of shape boxers fight like ****, he mentally folded.

I think his mental weakness was probably behind his poor stamina, doing roadwork etc. day after day is hard, so he found the coach that told him what he wanted to hear (that he could do better by doing less), because he was lazy.

I don't think it's a just coicidence either that Rocky, was both one of the toughest, and one who done the most roadwork and endurance training.

 

Andre is Rockys ideal opponet, relies on outboxing his enemies and not crazy powerful, he beat a much harder opponen in ezzard

 

I like Ward but for all his ability to mess up his opponent and impose his will on them this assignment would be too much.
Rocky just keeps on coming and ignores all the stuff Ward would be trying to throw at him.
I don't think it goes beyond 7 or 8 rounds before the unrelenting Marciano catches up with Ward and takes him out.

 

An intriguing matchup, it's hard to bet against Rocky, but I think Ward would make Marciano look silly at times and does well early on. Going down the stretch is where the momentum would shift massively and I think Ward gets overwhelmed and struggles to handle the elite work rate Marciano consistently produced. Ward's accuracy and timing is fantastic, I also think his powers a little bit underrated, but he doesn't have enough of it to consistently keep Marciano off him for 12 rounds.

 

Marciano as already said was stronger so wards holding game is this fight is not helping him . Marciano hits ward anywhere he can legal or not , Marciano ko 8