On this day Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated heavyweight champion*in 1956. Salute

[kendom]

Yes, and what I am about to say will get all these history and old-timer fanboys so pissed.

These fighters from Marciano and Joe Louis days would stand ZERO chance with the fighters of today. Even the **** heavyweight like Chisora, Arreola and other bums would have beaten these old guys. They barely trained compared to how people train these days, didn't know nearly as many strengthening techniques and everything else. In EVERY sport, the athletes are by far superior now to say 40-70 years ago. EVERY sport, yes that includes boxing. If Marciano were to fight Lennox Lewis or Ali or a Klitschko he would get destroyed so bad he would look like a bum bar fighter. Just look at those tapes LOL, so slow and brutal conditioning. These old guys are overrated as **** by nerd historians who dwell on the "good old days" when the fighters of today are wayyyy better.

Starting from the time of Ali onwards is when athletics hit major strides in training developments. Hell, after the fights those old guys would drink for a few weeks and have no nutritionists and then go fight again they would be slaughtered like lambs to new generation fighters.

How do you think Larry Bird stacks up to Lebron James in terms of ability on the court? LMAO

Oh yeah Marciano had "brutal conditioning", thats why he was able to throw 100 punches in the 15th round against Ezzard Charles and average 80-100 punches per rounds over 15 rounds regularly

[Southpawology]

Oh yeah Marciano had "brutal conditioning", thats why he was able to throw 100 punches in the 15th round against Ezzard Charles and average 80-100 punches per rounds over 15 rounds regularly

owned! marcianos conditioning was amazing. i heard he ran every single day whether he was training for a fight or not. he even ran on christmas

[kendom]

owned! marcianos conditioning was amazing. i heard he ran every single day whether he was training for a fight or not. he even ran on christmas

Yeah man the guy was a conditioning beast.