Rocky Marciano vs Chuck Norris

You realise Lee cross trained tons with Muay Thai guys Judo folk etc. He was educated enough to council Joe Lewis. I’m not saying it’s a 1-1 or that Lee would win but he had real training and sparred as often as he could find. Just to add Lee was 125lbs-ish in Enter the Dragon. Very small man.

 

He’d actually have made an amazing book on fitness if he cared to write one. Did he?

Edit: He did. In 57 a bodybuilding and boxing book.

 

Nice, thanks - now that you mention it I do have a vague recollection of a book. Would be worth checking out

 

Just skimmed it, it's okay.

 

I read that when challenged (always some guy wanting to take him on), Lee could be quite savage - no holds barred, street style - not necessarily as pretty or as aesthetic as in the films…..whatever gets the job done, makes sense.

Chuck Norris was a bit bigger but still, prob more in the realm of 5’8”’or so himself.

Not to spoil if people haven’t seen it yet - but I don’t know why Tarantino portrayed Lee so negatively in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Lee seemed like a cool, charismatic and intelligent guy but I’m not really an expert on the man.

Not sour grapes but I expected a lot more from that film. Disappointing imo, Tarantino dusting off a core concept he had previously used in an earlier film.

All prior films that I’ve seen of Tarantino’s being so fresh and innovative otherwise.

 

Marciano by KO.

Norris is allegedly 5'10" but is probably like 5'8" and 170. Rocky would be bigger compared to him, something we rarely see with Rocky.

Norris looks better in his toupees than Rocky did though.

 

Tarantino is a meh director, foot licking creep.

 

When I think of karate fighting, I think of kickboxing. And, when I think of kickboxing, I think of Norm Macdonald's quote: Kickboxing takes the elegance and grace of boxing and combines it with, uh, with kicking.

 

Chuck Norris doesn’t do boxing, boxing does Chuck Norris.

 

Norris practiced Japanese Karate.

 

I posted a link to the Marciano book a while back where you can read the whole thing since that Book runs about 700$ lol.

 

Yes!!!!

 

But we have real life footage of Rocky Marciano beating BEARS in fights with little effort. How is Chuck Norris going to stand up to that monster??

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Lol

 

Depends on the rules. In an MMA format, I think Norris has a chance. Rocky has no ground game at all and if Norris can utilize his kicks do some damage to wear Rocky out before taking it to the ground for grappling, Rocky would be in serious trouble and completely out of his element.

In a striking only match (no ground, but punches and kicks allowed) it depends on if Rocky is just shoved into a time machine and forced to fight or if he has time to actually spar and learn how to defend against kicks. If Rocky has no time to adjust, I think he has a punchers chance but might end up losing. Roundhouse kicks aren't the only things Chuck can do, he also knows how to throw perfect side thrust kicks and front kicks. If Rocky has time to practice he probably wins more often than not. Most of Chucks experience in full contact was point based and Rocky wouldn't allow him time to rest and there would be far less breaks in the action.

Obviously in a boxing match, Rocky splatters Chuck within 2 rounds tops.

In a street fight with no rules I would also have to take Rocky. You may ask why I think Rocky does better in a street fight than MMA with ground fighting, and the answer is simple: Rocky could be quite dirty and would unleash his full savagery upon Chuck with no ref, timer, or rules. Outside of Chuck landing the perfect kick to knock Rocky out, Rocky would destroy him. Just something about watching Rocky gives me the impression he'd be a complete animal in a street fight.