Rocky Marciano vs Kenny Norton

Yeah Marciano was facing Don Mogard whose ko% is16% and who had lost his last7 fights.
Norton was facing Garcia whose ko% is 48% .

 

What kind of labor was he doing? (LOL)

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Not only that, look at the size of this fish! Almost the length of his arm!

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Anyone's fists are going to look big if photographed from that angle!

 

I was joking.

 

I know Mate.

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That girl Suzie Q I bet. She was always sending dem home early.

 

Marciano stops Kenny in the first or second round (around 40 % chance) or else Ken wins a comfortable UD over 15 rounds. (55%)

 

Nah, just a guy like Scott LeDoux.

 

Rocky

 

To give this draw some perspective.

• Each fighter had lost his previous bout. LeDoux lost to Ron Lyle by a 10-round split decision, and Norton was stopped in one round by Earnie Shavers.

• LeDoux was at his peak period for this bout, which was 1976-80. Norton was past his prime. Norton's peak was 1973-78.

• Norton took a thumb in the eye during the eighth round which immediately changed the bout. Norton had trouble seeing for the rest of the fight as LeDoux rallied (LeDoux started landing more blows and soon after Norton became fatigued as a result).

• Norton discussed in his autobiography, Going the Distance, that he should have put more effort into training for this bout.

 

I know I'm oversimplifying to a degree but Norton could not handle power. Marciano had tons of power and would have gotten Norton out of there pretty quickly. Norton gave Ali and Holmes fits, he was an excellent fighter, but was very flawed too.

 

Was Norton's chin any worse than.
Lastarza's,Cokkel's?
How many rounds do you think either of them would go with;
Foreman,Shavers,Cooney?
Yet Lastarza went the distance with Rocky the 1st time and into the 11 th to be stopped on his feet in the 2nd?
Cokkell went into the 9th to be stopped on his feet.

 

Norton's chin was absolutely worse than LaStarza's, LaStarza had never even been dropped until Marciano, nor stopped until Marciano (rematch)

Cockell is debatable. Then again I wish people would stop judging him by an off night, where he probably had something taken out of him by Charles

That's like me saying Bob Fitzsimmons would destroy prime Ali because he was knocked down by Henry Cooper

 

He was also a ditch digger with the Brockton Gas Company......not exactly a desk job!!!

 

I've dug ditches. Plenty of guys have. They don't hand out a medal for it last I recall.