Yes, this looks ugly. To be honest though, these are not nearly as painful as they look. They feel a lot like regular blisters anywhere else, I used to get them all the time playing basketball (same spot plus the heel). It's actually a kind of burning sensation, like the skin was just raw.
The bottom of the foot does not have a dramatic amount of nerve endings but it does have several very thick layers of skin. As you can see from the pic, he still has some layers of skin beneath that thick loose chunk... otherwise that would be bleeding like a stuck pig.
With the adrenaline going and his face stinging from punches... this would be classified as less than a minor nuisance. As people noted, it didn't affect his running anyway.
If you're looking for a culprit regarding the poor outing, try knocking on father time's door instead.
What color was the guy who wrote this story?White as we all know.Just another attempt by a white guy to build up a fighter of his race.
How many 240 pound black fighters did Marciano knock out in his career?How many did he fight period?Most of the fighters Marciano fought were other small white guys like himself.So knocking out a 180 pound fighter using small gloves isn't impessive at all.
Let me tell you how pathetic Marciano's power was.Archie Moore started his career at middleweight.155 to 160 pounds.Moore stayed at this weight for 8 years and was knocked down at least 30 times in his career and stopped on several occations by other middleweights in one or two rounds.Moore was in his 20s when he was being beat and knocked out by these middleweights so his body was stronger and his chin was better(which isn't saying much since he was knocked down more than any other figher in any weight class who ever became champion)When Moore fought Marciano he was at least 42 years old some sources say he was at least 3 years older than that.In any case the older you get the less fluid you have around your brain.That means you get knocked down easier,you get concussions easier and you could suffer brain damage easier.But yet it took Maricano 9 rounds of punching just to stopped a aged warrior who's chin was glass to began with but now worse because he was older.
Charles was also a natual middleweight who stayed at this weight class for around 7 years.Charles was also knocked out several times by middelweights and knocked down many more times.In their first fight Charles went the 15 round limit.If Maricano's power was so great wouldn't it be easier for him to knock out to blow up middleweights who were both past their physical prime?
Jones was only knocked down 2 times in his career and stopped 2 times which means his chin is light years better than Moores.How many people in believe it would take a prime Tyson,Foreman,Lewis,Bowe,Tua ect ect ect 9 rounds to knock out a 40 year old Jones?And i mean all of them actually landing power punches on Jones for 9 rounds.
These little stories just show how some people try to use stupidity to build up their points.Like the stories that Duran could knock out a fully grown healthy horse with one punch.To say Maricano was powerful for a 180 pounder would be saying to much.If Marciano was knocking out fighters like Holyfields the Toneys you know people of that nature you could say he punched hard for a guy his size.But he didn't and as i said fighters from his era wore smaller gloves.Smaller gloves=more knock downs and knock outs,bigger gloves= less knock downs and knock outs .That is why fighters spar in big gloves.
You can't compare anything Marciano did to anything fighters do now.Maricano wasn't the hardest punching heavyweight because he isn't a heavyweight but a cruiserweight.You can't say Maricano punched hard for his size because Marciano basically fought stiffs his whole career.Just as people need to get off Tysons nutts people also need to get off Marciano's nutts.
Wow, not only are you playing the race card to squeeze out any reason to hate on someone but you are also wrong about Marciano never fighting larger men. Jerry Humphrey Jackson was 254 lbs and 2-0 when he fought Rocky who was 5-0... after getting knocked out in the first round he never fought professionally again. So don't play the size argument either. He was outweighed by 31 of his 49 opponents which is about 2/3 of them. Opinion is one thing but when you got no ground to stand on for your argument and start accusing someone of liking a fighter based on the color of their skin you are overstepping the boundaries of a civilized, opinionated discussion and just being plain ignorant.
And if the gloves are what knocked people out, how come no one could knock Rocky out back then? Because he was the best, no one of his time could beat him regardless of skin color and there is no other heavyweight in history that can make that claim. No matter how much an armchair critic like yourself wants to berrate him, you cannot take away his achievements. Loe Louis and Jack Dempsey both said Rocky was the beest fighter, so you pretend to know more about boxing than 2 of the best heavyweights who ever fought? Keep dreaming... keep playing the race card, it's all you got on this one.
Truly the perfect fighter, a top-knotch slugger with a chin of granite and unlimited stamina. What could anyone do but run and gun and pray that he never lands. In a 12 round fight, Ali might take him... in 15 rounds no one in history could.
Fistic Art, if we could even understand what you were trying to write then maybe we could comment on it. That is most laughable excuse for the english language I may have ever witnessed or likely ever will witness.
1. Floyd is pound for the pound the best in the world right now. (Which I think you may have been trying to say between all those commas & z's and that mad orgy of ebonics.)
2. Fistic Art, you are the bubonic plague of literature. You need to smash your computer screen and cut your wrists with the shards... or at least go back to grade 2 and give it another shot. You should be outlawed from ever typing or speaking english ever again.
nope. i believe vitali klitschko holds the honor of having the highest ko percentage of any heavyweight ever. 97% is it?
Possible, I'm just going by numbers I researched years ago when I was learning about the old fighters... too lazy to check on Vitali's numbers now but he does have like 34 out of 35 I think.
Either way, both eclipse Lewis for KO %.
Lennox Lewis has a career KO % of like 72%... that does not put him in the hardest hitters of all time. Marciano is the all time highest HW champion at 89% and his name was not brought up even though they showed a few clips of him. Lewis was not aggressive in the ring, he could hit hard due to his size but he did not have the killer instinct, he could have put Holyfield away so many times had he not been walking backwards the whole fight.
Whoever said he had the greatest right hand ever has not seen much of Marciano's Suzie Q... no one else could deliver that kind of output in a punch. He was 180lbs and broke fighter's arms from blocking his punches.
Lewis was a great fighter but not a KO artist, he was too passive and calculating... very little rage.
Also, as much as you guys want to call McCline a weak test. I didn't know him much before this fight and I'm shocked at how quick and in shape he is for his size. Nice jab for a man his size and maybe just a bit lacking in the stamina dept.
I bet he can beat about half of the top 10 guys right now.
Everytime this post comes back in different form, too many people leave out Diggstown. The storyline is absolute gold if you can get past some of the "average" fight choreography.
Byrd gained a new fan in me after his fight with McCline. This is 56 lbs, and he also had the guts to fight both of the Klitschko bros. He is suprisingly willing to exchange with a big man even when backed into the ropes. He is very very quick, hard to hit clean and fires a lot of quick punches to rack up points on the score cards.
On the downside, his backhand jabs are both illegal and not very powerful. If he can lose that bad habit he'd be much further ahead than he is now. He is more "the heavyweight champ" than any of the other title holders.
He admitted he was hurt by the knockdown and showed a lot of class. The only thing not to like about this guy aside from the little bitchslaps is his inability to knock out a good fighter... but not every fighter is a slugger and I think it's refreshing to a see a heavyweight with a different outlook in the ring.
I don't think he is far past his prime, next fight should be against Ruiz which I am confidant he can win. At which point he will be the majority title holder and hopefully can arrange a rematch with Vitali for all the marbles. Unifying the titles is exactly what the heavyweight division needs right now whether it's Vitali or Chris.
Roy Jones destroying future hall of famer Vinny Pazienza in every way possible. Never have I seen such a great fighter get beat so very badly...
Until maybe Johnson manhandling Jones for 9 rounds...
What?? No votes for Golota/Ruiz? I'm shocked!
I actually have not yet seen Pacquiao/Marquez (I know I missed out on a good one) but from what I've seen I'd have to say Trinidad/Mayorga.
I'm a big fan of Roy Jones but after winning a close 12 round decision and getting KO'd in 2 rds the next fight I have to assume he's slipping. I probably put him 4th still, I don't think Tarver warrants a top 10 yet from one punch but if he can do it to Jones then he should be able to do it with other champions and if he does he could make an appearance on my top 10.
If they fight again and Jones wins decisively then I'd put him back on top and Tarver would be way out of the picture. If Tarver beats him again I put Tarver at 4th and Jones drops to the bottom of my top 10, if there only one fighter in his career who can best him I don't think it warrants him to be dropped out completely after all he's done.
After Jones/Tarver III if the winner faces B-Hop it would be for all the marbles I think... undisputed top P4P fighter.
If we can see a Mayweather/Morales match-up then that would also help open some eyes as to who is the best.
Gatti on Dorin and Jones on Hill looked worse but like Oscar said himself after the fight, it just hit him in the right spot.
I had the fight 4 rds to 4 rds going into the 9th but Hopkins' rounds were more dominant. Oscar closely won rounds 1, 2 & 3 but then Hopkins won 4 & 5 then Oscar 6, then the beating began. Rounds 7 & 8 were big rounds for Hopkins and you could just see the way the fight was going even if I had it even up to that point. 9th round more of the same from Hopkins until he ended it.
For the 4 rounds I saw DLH winning it looked like his strategy was that he would take a decent shot from Hopkins to land 3 or 4 weaker, quicker shots of his own. Rather than jump back when Hopkins lunged in, DLH was throwing very quick hook combos to the body and head. Nothing damaging but was trying to win rounds, not beat up Hopkins. Once Hopkins imposed the jab it was downhill from there... looks like Oscar has been figured out, both Sturm and Hopkins had big success with the jab on Oscar.
Although this KO loss doesn't change the perception of De La Hoya's chin cause it wasn't a head shot that finally handed him his 1st KO loss. He's good enough to be a top 10 middleweight (top 5 maybe) but he's gone as high up as he can go, not going to run this division or move anywhere past this.
Even though I lost $20 I'm glad it didn't go to the cards... would have been as big a fiasco as Leonard/Hagler.
Jones beats Johnson by KO next week, then beats Tarver by decision then meets Hopkins (preferably at 168 but I don't think Hopkins will have any of it) and they have a career-ending match.
A boxing fan can dream can't he?
If it's a punch that Hoya didn't see, then it doesn't need to be an incredibly hard shot. It sucks others aren't seeing the beauty of it: Hopkins throws a jab, feints with a right hand causing Oscar to avoid it by ducking over to his left, thereby exposing his right side for the perfect liver shot outside of his vision. Nard is a tactician.. he studies his opponent in the early rounds and by the 2nd half of the fight he's made the small adjustments needed to start consistently landing clean shots. You can talk about Micky Ward body shot KOs all you want cause they were nice, but this shot was great in it's own right.
Quite right.
The first 6 rounds were all very close. After 8, I had it 4-4. Rounds 1, 2 & 3 to De La Hoya, 4 & 5 to Hopkins, 6 to De La Hoya... then 7 & 8 to Hopkins.
De La Hoya barely squeaked by in the 4 rounds I had him winning, especially the 6th. Hopkins was an obvious winner of rounds 7 & 8 and the beginning of the end was apparent.
I'm glad it didn't go to the cards... the judges' scoring was quite "off".
Easily Marciano... Aaron Pryor and Salvador Sanchez are also excellent picks.
Marciano used to run 5 miles a day, even when he was sick and even on X-mas day... THAT is determination. He never quit, no matter how tired or beaten he was. He was rewarded with the only undefeated record of any heavyweight champion in history.
I used to say "no way" to him being top 10 because I do truly believe he is overrated by today's fan. Any who says he beat everyone he faced you might recall McCall? The Rahman loss he avenged but the win against McCall was hardly Lewis' doing... McCall beat himself by having a nervous breakdown. So I'll always say McCall bested him, and McCall was a crackhead...
However... whenever I try and sit down and seriously arrange my top 10 all-time I truly have a lot of trouble putting more than 8 fighters ahead of him... and that's even with my dislike for him. Truth is, no matter how you slice it, he was a damn good fighter and does hold a lot of accomplishments.
It hurts me to admit it but I would put Lewis top 10... anywhere from 7-10 really would be acceptable I think. Anyone putting him top 5 makes me cringe, I can't understand anyone who would do this but everyone has an opinion.
Whoever compiled that linear page seems to hate RJJ, they left him out of every weight class he cleaned out... they even list James Toney as "vacating" the middleweight title in 1993 then it wasn't re-established until 2001 in Hopkins' name. What a joke. If memory serves me correctly, Roy Jones Jr masterfully outboxed the so-called unbeatable James Toney winning a 12 round unanimous decison to take the title. If that's "vacating" the title then I guess RJJ was just "vacating" the title when he got KTFO by Tarver & Johnson... heh.
Being the linear champ isn't the same as the p4p king. RJJ was the recognized people's champ, but DM was the linear champ. Now Tarver is the recognized people's champ, but Erdei is the linear champ.
Well, why does no one hold the linear title since it was vacated in 1985? Who gets to say that Virgil Hill picks it up in 1996 after more than 10 years? Jones beat Hill quite handily as well, not sure if that was before or after Hill was considered linear. Besides, since the line was cut in 1985 (as it was many times before) then it's unfair to grant it to anyone else as "linear" after that point. Plus Jones beat Hill and Gonzales, Gonzales beat Michelchewski, not in the order listed on the website you showed but I still think if the line broke anywhere within Jones' reign as it did, he should have been where it restarted, all roads ended with Jones from 154 lbs to 175 lbs between 1993-2003.
George Chuvalo deserves a spot.
Chuvalo deserves the #1 spot... fought Ali twice and went the distance, also fought Frazier, Foreman and a few other heavy hitters.
Never went down, not even once, I think he fought nearly 100 fights too.
Marciano had an excellent chin as well, I think he only went down twice and got up immediately. I saw Walcott lay a beating on him and floor him with a terrific punch and Rocky stood right up and went right back at it... not wobbly or dazed at all. He also took a nasty elbow that split his nose in half (against Ezzard Charles I believe) and never went down, went on to win by KO because his corner was worried the fight would be stopped because he was bleeding so much so they warned him and he went out like a madman and ended it.
The biggest problem I have with it was that after destroying Tyson they interviewed Lewis in the ring. The only thing he kept repeating was how he was in his prime and that he's like fine wine and gets better with age, so on and so forth.
He fights one more and then retires?
What the hell kinda prime is that? a prime that lasts 2 fights?
I was always hard on Lewis for not being agressive enough in the ring for me to consider him top 5 heavies. After the Tyson fight I was starting to get on the bandwagon a bit but I think he should have rematched & beat Vitali and then beat little bro Wlad then call it a career. At the time Wlad was considered the better fighter, Lewis beating him would have further enhanced his legacy. Lewis had a good chance at beating both, he is good in rematches.
I am one of the few who seems to "not" like the way he ended his career...
I think Tyson was too top-heavy to have good footwork. He needed to be planted to have good balance. Very large upper body with very skinny calves and ankles. Of course no one knows for sure, never will.
Rocky for sure... but when a fighter retires on top you always "wonder" how much further he could have gone.
What if Rocky came back to fight Patterson who was calling him out?
50-0?
It kinda sucks that we'll never know.
Rocky was a great fighter, i think this is a really good question because in some ways you could say he was. I don't think he was overated for his time because he was the toughest out there but i do think he's overated on the toughest Heavyweights of all time rankings. He showed great courage and heart in alot of his fights, especially against Jersey Joe Walcot for the championship. I never judge Rocky on his fight against Joe Louis because we all are aware that Joe Louis was way past his best. A prime Joe would have beaten up Rocky Marciano just like a prime Ali would have. Rocky was a good brawler but when a good brawler comes into the ring against a boxing genius i honestly cannot even imagine Rocky ever ladning a lucky punch on either of these guys.
Joe Louis admitted that Rocky would have beat him even in his prime. Also at 38 yrs old he was 68-2 and was still better than 95% of fighters in history.
Jack Dempsey said Marciano was the hardest puncher in history.
That's pretty good backup from the most reliable sources around.
He also broke a GOOD pro boxer's arms with gloved fists, Roland LaStarza.
He also has the highest KO rate of any heavyweight champion in history with 89%.
While filming the fantasy fight, Rocky actually floored Ali with a body shot and Ali refused to continue until he was offered a bigger cut... he also refused an actual match that Rocky challenged him to. Rocky was in his mid-40's at the time.
When the going got tough he rose to the occasion, EVERY SINGLE TIME. If that isn't heart then I don't know what is. He's been cut, outboxed and floored... always came back with the KO when he needed it. 100% is a flawless record, that means NO ONE found out how to beat him.
He beat a man that was around 250 lbs, undefeated (something like 2-0 or 4-0 I forget) and the man retired after the Rocky fight.
Beat a title contender who was something like 26-0 in just his 4th career fight... he was essentially fed to the lions so his manager could get paid.
He did all of this with the shortest reach of any heavyweight in history.
How is it possible to "overrate" this man? To do so would be on opinion alone when all facts and stats point towards greatness... and if we're talking opinion, I'll take Jack Dempsey's and Joe Louis' over some boxing fans 75 years later.
The best heavyweight fighter of all time.