THE Greatest

Quite easy to argue, clearly not the top man there.

 

Some people even seem to think that the fake Ali-Marciano "superfight" was real. Sweet Jesus...

 

I wouldn't have thought it would be that big of a problem. Honestly, if someone knows enough about Marciano to be a fan you'd think they'd know enough about boxing in general to know it wasn't a real fight. All it takes is a quick glance at either Marciano or Ali's records.

 

Well Ali did have 2nd thoughs on Marciano after there 1969 match. I belive in the ABC world of Sports were Ali was interview in the 70's. They went though all the champions of the heavyweights, and he would explain why Louis or Dempsey or Corbett would fail. but when they got to Marciano. Ali kinda of back down with his bold perdiction. and said Marciano "might" beat him.

 

It's websites like these that make me dislike Marciano. I don't want to dislike him, but the way his followers go on about "He was undefeated. Therfore he's the best of all-time. No one else was, so that proves it. You can't argue with facts and statistics.":-(

 

IMO better than the Ali- propaganda, and the Marciano- nuthuggers aren´t so many and fanatic like the Ali- ones...

 

You've got to be kidding. I know you love and all, but you can't deny the unwarranted praise he gets by many people. The only thing they come up with is that he was undefeated. There's a much stronger case for Ali than for Marciano, that's for sure.

 

I know only a few Marciano- nuthuggers who use the stupid term "Because he´s undefeated, he´s automatically the greatest ever!", Ali on the other side has so many fanatics, who hyps every opponent he fought and all that...

That´s an easy case, Ali´s fanboys are way worse...

 

A few? Just go to any Marciano vid and you'll see hundreds of posts like that. Hundreds! Sometimes I wonder if they're talking about the same person, I read the posts and then I watch the vid, and they simply don't matchup.

 

Don´t listen to them, most are just kiddies. As a Marciano-fan, even for me it´s just stupid and nerved, when someone says Marciano was the greatest, because he retired without a L. Than Nielsen was also close to a ATG... but with Ali, I even see/read/hear grown up men who "slobber" when they talk about Ali´s greatness, you know what I mean? Nothing personal to Ali, it´s not his fault, I like Ali very much, it´s just some of his fans who I dislike...

 

Marciano himself said to MA 'lets hope they give the right decision', meaning Ali should have got the decision.

Anyone who picked anything from the film about how a real fight would go is pretty deluded. There was 12 scrited endings to the film if I remember rightly - 6 with each man winning

The classic Marciano fan line 'Ali got floored by a Marciano bodyshot' - and Ali would have been floored by my bodyshot too if he wasn't protecting himself and fooling around but it doesnt mean I'd beat him

The second classic Marciano fan line 'a 1960s computer had Marciano winning so that proves he would have won'

 

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