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No. During his peak run in the 50s, Moore effortlessly skipped huge margins in weight often over very short periods of time while staying healthy. He was an active Light Heavyweight Champion while chasing the Heavyweight rankings over a couple of years.
1955-09-21 188 Rocky Marciano 188¼ 48-0-0
1955-06-22 175 Bobo Olson 170¼ 69-6-0
1955-05-02 196½ Nino Valdes 209½ 32-9-3
1954-08-11 173 Harold Johnson 172½ 47-5-0
1954-06-07 189¼ Bert Whitehurst 186½ 18-3-0
1954-03-09 190¼ Bob Baker 209 31-4-1
1954-01-27 175 Joey Maxim 174¼ 79-20-4
Even after Marciano:
1957-09-20 175 Tony Anthony 172 31-4-1
1957-06-02 189 Alain Cherville 200 20-5-0
1957-05-01 206½ Hans Kalbfell 210½ 16-1-0
1956-11-30 187¾ Floyd Patterson 182¼ 30-1-0
"Moore even managed to maintain a shroud over something as simple as a diet.
He loved to tell listeners it was an aborigine diet, which he had obtained in Australia from one of the natives in exchange for a sweater. And he said it began every day with a drink of hot sauerkraut juice.
Those who knew him say it wasn’t quite so mysterious. When in training, Moore would simply bite into a piece of meat, suck out the juice and then spit it out."
Hard to say who hit harder, different style of puncher anyways. Frazier was a banger that broke fighters down with heavy body shots and jumping hooks while Moore picked his opponents apart with excellent timing and accuracy. Both could bang with much bigger men though Moore usually overcame the largest margin of weight and size difference. I honestly don't see Frazier stopping Marciano though and vise versa. Both have been hurt and knocked down in their careers but under different circumstances. They were both amazingly durable, not only able to take a good punch but sustained punishment from good punchers. Not many could do what they did against Walcott and Ali.
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