What weight class would Rocky Marciano fight in in the present era?

It really is a lot of voodoo when we talk about Rocky.

If that diet is true I believe the 215lbs walk around weight

 

What bothers me the most is how clear this all is and how hard they try to hide it.

We can CLEARLY on film see him, we have reports about his training, we have reports about his diet we have his weights everything we need to put the myth to rest and they try and obscure every fact. It is all out in the open.

He was a small guy, he could afford to lose weight he didn't train like Ares and he ate like a pig and we have tons of film of him fighting to dispel so much nonsense yet it persists? It is maddening.

 

I don’t think LHW is a stretch with modern training but I certainly think MW is, even smw. Your right he could have meant how you said but really no way to know now. We do know he stated he felt much weaker in the low 180s so how far is reasonable to dehydrate?

 

Would be perfect.

He could fight at the 80s 190CW also I believe.

 

He'd probably be too slow and on the smaller side for the more spry athletic modern cruisers. Those guys are roughly the size of the 70's and 80's contenders and I don't fancy Rocky doing too well against many of them.

A wise manager would have him campaign primarily at light heavyweight to become the top dog like a Hagler at middle. There he'd be able to maximize his best assets of power, endurance, and non stop pressure without having to worry about tall long armed guys constantly jabbing and leaning on him all night. Even if Rocky managed to beat such opponents, the matchups would quickly become a bore fest and very ugly so that would be bad for business. Think non stop PPVs of Tyson vs Green and Smith.

He should only attempt a campaign at cruiser if the money is there and there are favorable matchups.

 

Like many old timers he'd be a cruiser weight

 

I sure don't look as fit as Rocky when I'm around 17 or even lower.

Around 10% sounds right which means he'd be about 175 lbs at a ripped 5%.

 

As I have said, you clearly understand this topic better than I, but I will permit myself a couple of observations.

There is something about what you are saying, that doesn't quite ring true to me.

We don't have any super middles or light heavies today, that seem to have the kind of power that Marciano had, but as a small cruiser he starts to look more believable.

Not saying that he couldn't do what you are saying of course.

Not every fighter has elected to fight at the lowest weight possible for them.

For example it is fairly safe to assume that Chris Byrd could have made light heavyweight at any stage of his career, but he chose to go after the bigger paydays at heavyweight.

 

There are commercial scales that measure body fat %.

While they might not be entirely accurate, I dares say that they are not entirely inaccurate either.

From what I have seen, I am inclined to agree with the authors of the article that I posted.

 

Light Heavyweight sounds about right.

 

Cruiser. Wouldn't be much fun for the rest of the division. Broke ribs busted blood vessels in the arms! and teeth snapped off at the roots. Ouch.