Rocky Marciano vs Joe Frazier

Perhaps the term journeyman is not as negative as you consider it to be.

 

Is that a term you would use to describe a former Hw champ? Any of them? Or just Walcott? There were worse champs then Walcott. But imo once u win it that term leaves you behind. No one from your articles u posted called him a journeymen I believe after he won the belt. Mediocre champ is a better assessment

 

Yea its compliment considering what JJW had been through during his career. If he wasnt a Journeymen then nobody was.

 

I don't agree with @Seamus that Walcott's entire career should be classified as a journeyman, but just to play Devil's Advocate, you can class parts of a career as journeyman like. I'd say the first part of Walcott's career was like that, similar to Braddock's too.

 

At their best I favor Frazier, but Rocky's a live enough 'dog. When two attrition fighters go at it, I always favor the larger man unless there's a big gulf in skill in favor of the smaller man or real chin issues on the larger, and that's not the case here. Would've been an absolutely brutal affair.

 

It would be a great fight, wouldn't it?

 

I thought the same thing when i was reading the thread. Marciano having good hand speed?

 

Not even his biggest fans, as idiotic and rabid as they are, would make such a claim.

 

My ultimate fan favourite heavyweight matchup.