Rocky Marciano -vs- Floyd Patterson

The rock smokes the elusive patterson early, with his superior punching power and chin.

 

Rocky by brutal kayo. one of those leonard-green or Jackson-graham types

 

Marciano would not need to find Patterson. He be right there brawling with Marciano.

 

Marciano by TKO

 

I'm shocked!:shock:

 

I voted for Patterson KO because I thought it was going to say in 1955. If it happened in 1955 against a faded Marciano I think Patterson would KO the Rock, especially if it was the much slower Rocky with the bad back that showed up against Moore.

Patterson would start quickly beatign Marciano to the punch and he had better power than Walcott/Moore. I see him knocking Marciano down early and maybe finnishing him off after perhaps tasting the canvas himself.

Against a prime marciano I see the fight going the same way with the exception that Marciano would land come threw to stop Patterson.

If it was a 3 fight series I see Patterson winning 1 and Marciano 2. Each fighter could flaw the other. Patterson would beat Rocky to the punch, Maricano had the much greater durability and would be the stronger fighter and get his Suzie Q off on Patterson probably getting off the canvas to score a KO in a thriller.

 

A lot of experts picked Patterson over Liston in 1962, actually. Liston was a 10-7 favorite for this fight, according to the 1976 Ring Record Book. Interesting, he was actually a slightly larger favorite, at 7-5, for the 1965 rematch with Ali, believe it or not.

 

...i have always dismissed patterson in my mind until some recent threads prompted me to find out more about the man......olympic gold medalist and golden gloves champ at miidelweight.....no1 pro lightheavyweight contender and then youngest ever heavyweight champion at only 21.....looking at his record, i see he defeated some pretty tough guys, chuvalo, bonavena, a draw and a decsision loss to gerry quarry, a fighter many on here rate highly, a decision loss to jimmy ellis over 15 rounds in the h/w tournament of the time, after breaking ellis nose in the first round...and a quick win over henry cooper...all after he was blown out by liston..twice....even his amature rcord suggests he could bang a bit, 37 kos out of 40 wins.....the guy had a great ko record in the pros, and for a fighter who is generally perceived as light in the whiskers department, was only kod by huge punchers, sonny liston and ingemar johansen.....but the johansen loss was avenged..twice..by ko to floyd....the guy fought and beat bonavena in 72 and fought ali again in the seventies......what a long, and distinguished career.....the black and white on paper evidence suggest here we have a fast moving, hard hitting , physically small heavyweight with tremendous power for his size and, against popular opinion, a decent chin and good defense......and, if some of the fights iv actually seen of him in archive footage, tremendous amounts of pride and heart, particularly, perversely, in his humiliating systematicall beating at the hands of ali......and his insistence, against the wishes of cus d'amato, to fight liston...twice.....an underrated and unfairly overlooked h/w champ then????...the fact that floys seems to have been a tremendously liked and popular character out of the ring also speaks volumes...i think in this fight, floyd might well be a nightmare for marciano...who did the rock fight with pattersons speed, elusivness and movement.....i think floyd could win quite a wide u/d...unless marciano catches him clean......its a russian roulette type fight for floyd with one bullet in the chamber...the odds are in his favour, but one slip and his head comes off....

 

come on, Patterson in his prime, the 50's is not going to be dancing around. He be charging head first. Marciano would not need to catch up with Patterson. Marciano is going to end up doing the same thing Ingo and Liston did. And that is ko Patterson.

 

Walcott was more Elusivness than Patterson.