I think that Marciano was extremely technical puncher. There are many sides to punching, the thing which Marciano excelled was getting his body weight in his punches, I have never seen anybody throwing bomb after bomb with such body weight after them. That is too technique. He was a swarmer with slugger type of punching power, that is a really frightening combination... He did know how to pace himself to keep punching constantly hard hits. He was the pinnacle of power hitting, extremely hard and extremely often.
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Fine post, Uncle Sam.. That's exactly what he had & it made up for his disadvantages in size & speed.. I say speed, but no body was faster 'in the trenches', so to speak.. My argument would depend on whether Marciano could take a prime Louis to those trenches.. Schmelling done it, & that, in my opinion, was the only advantage Rock holds over Louis.. My reason being, that Louis suffered a defeat inside of 49 fights..
Louis's reason being, that he didn't take Max seriously (at first) & underestimated him.. Sure.. We've all heard that one before! Louis then promised to do the biz next time, & did it brutally by quick KO..
I'm very confident Louis would'a taken a prime Marciano a damn site more seriously, & when you consider the superior resume over 64 fights, the extra reach, the superior generalmanship, & equal power in both hands, I don't think Marciano quite cuts it.. With regard to Rocky, I'd say he had a slight edge with heart & chin, but Louis's hands were much faster.. With regard to footwork & conditioning, they were pretty even... All said and done, Louis takes it by late TKO......Last edited by mickey malone; 07-06-2009, 11:34 AM.
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