Rocky Marciano vs Floyd Patterson

When the "Suzie Q" meets Patterson's chin....fights over!!!

 

1. Actually Johansson is pretty underrated, aside from Patterson he was undefeated, dominating the best in Europe and destroying Machen in a round. He's also bigger than Rocky at 200lbs, I wouldn't be suprised if he hit as hard, that Machen KO is brutal, he isn't as good though no

2. Your missing the key points: he came back twice after that to beat the Swede and showed enormous heart/chin in all 3 fights. He improved after the first loss, losses happen in boxing. Prime for prime Rocky beats Johansson in a war. But if a 22-23yo Marciano stepped up against Johannson he gets ko'd

3. Just because 1 big puncher knocks a man out early doesn't mean another will - Liston-machen a case in point. Archie Moore was knocked out in the first himself, Cockel was stopped much faster than Rocky stopped him, as was Charles/Walcott 1

There is allot more to knocking a man out early than 'how hard a fighter hits' - such as speed/skill/starting fast/reach/range of punches. How many of Rocky's top opponents did he stop early, few, Liston was an early round bomber Rocky wasn't so much.

Liston could KO a man cold with either hand, Rocky more so with the right or on attrition. As a Rocky fan you should be familiar with his quote (words to the affect from my memory):

'a boxer shouldn't be able to land his lead right easily, if he can his opponent is usually not defensively skilled'

So given Rocky is scoring KOs from the right/attrition its unlikely he lands the perfect Suzie Q early or gets off , Rocky is unlikely to risk throwing too much

4. Patterson like Ezzard Charles can get his shots off first, this is a stylistic problem for Rocky, he'd need to rely on timing and breaking his man down to the body to land his better punches, as he did against Charles/Walcott

5. Being down doesn't equate to being hurt

6. I'm not even picking Patterson in this fight, I just think he'll win the early rounds and hurt Rocky early

7. I'd given Patterson good odds against Dempsey, Dempsey was a similar size and he never fought anyone in Patterson's class, Tunney aside. Patterson also has the power to hurt/KO Patterson if you look at Dempsey's 1st round ko loss and the Firpo KD and patterson has the better speed/skill. A Frazier fight is interesting much like a Marciano fight, Patterson has the skill/speed edge over Frazier and could maybe hurt him

 

I don't rate Patterson as low as some people I know, but, in this case, Rocky is going to be too much for Floyd to handle...in my opinion.

 

The huge difference between Ingo and Marciano was chin. Rocky had a great one and Ingo did not ...

 

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