What boxers and sports writers said of Marciano's punching power:

What Gene Tunney said about Marciano:

Tommy Gibbons, Harry Greb and Jack Dempsey would have beaten Heavyweight Champion Rock Marciano in their prime. Gibbons was a wonderful boxer- he would have knock Rocky out. He would have slipped inside Rocky and taken charge. I don't believe Rockey would have laid a glove on Greb. Dempsey had everything Marciano has in strength and power and was intuitively a shrewd fighter with tremendous drive... Rocky can miss with a punch wider than anybody I ever saw."

 

"Well, Marciano must have hit ****ell about 300 punches and it took him nine rounds to catch up to him. You saw what Valdes did to ****ell. Where's the one punch knockout power Marciano is supposed to have?"

Charley Johnston

"The notion here is that Marciano is merely an undefeated champion. The mark of greatness isn't upon him. In the briefest possible summation, Marciano is a trained street fighter"

Jack Murphy

Lastarza also stated that he thought Archie Moore hit harder than Marciano.

 

wasn't toxie hall sonny listons running mate?

 

Here we go with another load of nonsense. The party line on ESB appears to be that Marciano destroys everything in his wake before or since.

This **** is so disrespectful to everyone from Liston to the present day, that it is embarrassing.

 

I'm going to believe the words of those that actually fought Marciano...

 

Why not the guy who fought Dempsey?

 

Oh no.....nonononono, that's not allowed here. That apparently isn't allowed for Earnie Shavers, so it can't apply here.




*Not talking about you, just some other toolshed here.

 

I never thought Marciano was a one punch KO artist. Yes he did deliver THAT punch, but surely his great strength, like Fraziers 15 years later was that you hit him and hit him and he kept coming and it was the attrition and volume of his work that prevailed. He simply wanted it more.
Arms too short ? All the better to deliver short percussive thumps and quicker to reload than long levers.
It is different days now with so many tall athletic strong people about and I agree post-liston it would be harder for Rocky (refs would stop him on cuts before he did his best work!) but greatness is with him, the greats always find a way to win.

 

Tunney:
6-1 1/2 - 190
Reach: 77
Neck: 17
Bicep: 14
Chest (normal) 41
Chest (expanded) 44
Thigh: 23
Calf: 16

Marciano:
5-11 1/2 - 187
Reach: 67
Neck: 17
Bicep: 14
Chest (normal): 39
Chest (expanded ): 42
Thigh: 22
Calf: 14 3/4

You're right, Marciano dwarfed Tunney.

 

Thats what they all said...when they came face to face with him in the ring it was a different story.

 

Wlad never one punch ko'd anybody worth a dam in his life. Not Haye, not even faded non heavyweight Byrd whose legs had long gone.

 

Lastarza fought a Rock afraid to hit full force after he had just put a guy in a coma.