Instead of retiring, Marciano goes for win number 50 against the Patterson who fought Moore. How does it go down?
Patterson was chinny but he usually recovered quickly. Marciano was good but both his power and chin are more myths than proven reality. Could go both ways, but there is a good chance that Patterson would slash his face off
Lmao @ Marciano's power being a myth! He was the most devastating 185-190 pound puncher that ever lived. You can't measure his power against a Foreman or Tyson considering those guys had 30-40 pounds on him.
Marciano was a bone breaker... end of story... it's absolutely hilarious the way he's reimagined on fightbeat There's precious few guys under 200 pounds that could hang with him
I hear you but....there is a tremendous amount of inconsistency in this regard. Anthony Joshua outweighs Tyson and Foreman by 30 lbs yet I don't see anyone suggesting that he hits harder than those guys.
210-220 pound punchers can KO men of any size... they're heavyweights. Rocky ain't a heavyweight if he fought today. Today, he'd be the greatest cruiserweight ever.
You're not thinking bigger picture. What if Cruiserweight limit went up to 220lbs in order to cater for these bigger 21st century athletes? Someone would then argue as you have that a cruiserweight cannot compete with Heavyweight power. The weight limits are mythical boundaries...but weight advantage is still weight advantage.
Marciano has the power to KO Patterson, but Patterson is also a bomber, and he could well KO Marciano if the catches him good. He's also much faster and dynamic than Marciano.
That's silly Cruiserweight changed by just 10 pounds since 1981 Now you are tossing a hypothetical out there to raise it twice as much in one fail swoop Mike Tyson carried 220 pounds on a 5'11 frame ... with 6+ additional inches, Joshua carries an additional 25-30 pounds ... it can be reasonably deduced that much of Joshua's additional weight is a function of being taller Rocky Marciano was 5'10 185 ... he's only an inch shorter than Tyson yet he's 35 pounds lighter
Disagreed, he was fighting guys bigger than him, and almost always hurt them when he touched them good
He was a big puncher for his size yes, but in the ring he doesn't get pity points, there is no such thing as p4p knockout. Liston was bigger and hit harder and there is no reason to believe Marciano would repeat what he did. Also, when you look at Marciano's results he didn't knock anyone good out quickly, his weapon was the accumulation. He had the ability to throw hundreds of hard shots but he wasn't a one-punch KO artist. That reputation is mostly based on a photograph. Marciano does get underrated often, but portraying him as a subtle master technician who knocked out giants with single shots is far away from the truth, too
Like who? What bigger guy did he hurt? His challengers were the worst since Tommy Burns ... all of his KOs were against bums around his size ...
Actually he couldn't even beat Jerry So I guess it's Chuvalo or possibly Oscar Bonavena Unless you mistakenly think Ingo was a good fighter
In all fairness, he did beat Quarry, Ellis and Bonavena. Not exactly a murderer's row, but not that far from aging Marciano either. The same Marciano who got seriously hurt by Moore and Charles
He didn't beat Quarry or Ellis The Ezzard Charles that Rocky fought probably beats Patterson, same goes for Walcott Ezzard injured Marciano but he didn't badly hurt him and I think it's a stretch to claim he was "seriously" hurt by Moore
