Got to disagree with you buddy. Foster has the best chance on paper but the ease - ease - with which Frazier broke him down makes me think he has the worst chance in reality. For me, there is absolutley no way Jones is keeping Rocky of for 12 or 15 rounds and hasn't demonstrated anything like the heart/chin to make it reasonable to think he could survive Marciano. I think Charles gets his resistance broken like the real, although he might take 1/3 and I think a worse fate awates Spinks who was absolutley crushed by the other great HW puncher he met. Rocky is so brutal, a real tidal wave of violence, I just don't think they have the physicality to survive.
i must admit that when i put the names down i thought,mmmmmmmm maybe not. i still don't think rocky is top 10 heavy material.he's not big enough for that. somebody like lennox lewis would bomb him out.
I have him at ten. Huge great men would have beaten him, I think. But in terms of what he did? No point in going through it all, but I don't have a problem with him appearing in a top 10 depending on criteria because his achievments were incredible. In terms of consistancy, mental strength and deployment of his abilities, no fighter in history overhauls him, and I think that this needs to be recognised.
Imagine getting into the ring and knowing that every time you do you have to deploy yourself at absolute maximum to win becauase your style calls for it. It's amazing, realy, that he didn't drop off like the other great HW who rellied upon that top 1% of his intensity to win him fights, Joe Frazier. No wonder he stopped shaking hands of those who came to meet with him in the final week of training. He must have been buried inside himself in some really evil place. The man is a marvel.
its not that i dislike rocky or have anything against his legacy.before randy turpin became my favourite fighter it was rocky. i did my english oral exam about the rock and it must have impessed because i passed. there was a lad that i boxed with in the 70's and his dad's hero was rocky.ithink he'd followed his fights when he was doing his national service in the 50's.i asked him one day about marciano and he surprised me by saying he didn't even think he'd beat johannson. i think me and you will have to diagree about the rock.
I would like to know how Eddie Futch and Gil Clancy voted. Not sure if Dundee or Duva are all that credible.
I would have more respect for Dundee if he had walked away in Ali's last fights as Pacheco did. Duva is a mouth, a motivator but not a trainer Benton filled that role.
I just don't think Dundee is all that knowledgeable, not in comparison to Futch or Clancy. Clancy has gotten it wrong more than a few times, it's actually quite funny to listen to his commentary in some fights when he seems assured something is going to happen and the exact opposite does. Atleast he always admits he was wrong, unlike Manny Steward for example ("This is exactly how I thought the fight was going to end up" when he picked the other man to win). Still knowledgeable though.
I'm willing to bet that the vote Rocky got as the top dog at heavyweight came from Duva. Nothing wrong with that really, but he always has and always will vote for The Rock. It's a forgone conclusion.
and you will give it to louis or robinson no matter what. see ? you are exactly like angelo dundee . the tiny difference is in your pick but the same amount and type of reasoning is common to you both , and many more here.
look mate you need to be banned. you offer NOTHING to this board and barely speak English. Typical Frankenfrank post; 'Langford could wear a turtle shell and fly through termites because Michael Bennt beat Tommy Morrison.'