Was Marciano a one punch KO artist.

Moore said both Durelle and Sheppard hit harder than Marciano.

 

Whether or not there are many legitimate one punch ko artists does not give Marciano a free pass to that echelon. My take is Marciano was a banger but that he generally required several rounds of steady bombardment to get his opponents out of there.
A two -handed version of Frazier if you like.
I believe that is a reasonable point of view to hold ,others may very well differ.
I guess I will just have to somehow learn to live with that.:verysad

 

I've always thought Marciano was a hard puncher but he was inaccurate, he missed with a lot of his big punches, and when he hit they just landed anywhere or in the general area.
He wasn't a pinpoint accurate puncher like Louis or Tyson.

 

It is reasonable and I wouldn't argue with that point of view.

 

I don't see how anyone could disagree with that.

 

Marciano was one of the hardest hitting fighters of all time. Walcott stated he hit harder than Louis, his knockout loss answers the question wether Rocky was a one punch knockout artist, it's got to be the most devastating knockout in Heavyweight title history.

 

Exactly but if we are going by their words than Walcott's word appears the most accurate....

 

I don't necessarily agree with him [then again, I haven't been hit by any of them,]I'm just repeating what Moore said, it wasn't and isn't meant to be the final anything. .

 

I disagree,I think Louis kayoing Braddock with one right hand,and driving his teeth through his gumshield and into his lips in the process is more devasting.
Louis dropping huge Buddy Baer with a right hand that caused him to do a perfect pirouette is another.
Louis kayoing Uzcudun with one right hand that smashed his bridgework all over the canvas is another ,but like Marciano's ko of Layne it was not a title defence ,unlike Marciano's ko he hadn't appreciably softened up his opponent though.
Rocky gave Layne's fleshy midsection a real pasting before getting the stoppage, he effectively ran Rex out of gas.

 

Of course-- I don't put much stock in the things that boxers say. I only brought up the point because someone else scoffed at the thought of anyone comparing Marciano's power to Ron Lyle's.

 

Spot on. If people truly don't understand how this is different than the other fighters who have come up in this thread, I don't know what to say.

 

Marciano's short 67" reach prevented him from scoring many one punch knockouts. He was forced, out of necessity to pound forearms, shoulders, ribs, etc., to weaken his opponent sufficiently to lower their guards and expose their chins. Many of the shots that he winged to bombard random targets would have been, in my opinion, quite enough to score a one punch knockout....these shots were fired with maximum leverage and gradually wore his opponents down to the point that many of his ko's were of the cumulative variety before he could reach the chin.

 

Seamus, I'm sure you know that the follow up left was an after thought, if anything...it merely grazed the top of the already unconcious Walcott's head as you can see in the film.