who beat better competiton liston or marciano?

[SuzieQ49]

who do you think beat better competiton?

[Brockton Lip]

Oh damn; get ready for the controversy haha. I predict Smasher and Butterfly arguing against NextRocky and Rockyfan with some posts by myself thrown into the mix. I'm not even going to post my opinion because either way I'll be racist . I'll see how the thread goes first.
But it is a good thread!

[butterfly1964]

liston beat patterson, who is better than anyone marciano fought, so i'd say liston.

[butterfly1964]

Oh damn; get ready for the controversy haha. I predict Smasher and Butterfly arguing against NextRocky and Rockyfan with some posts by myself thrown into the mix. I'm not even going to post my opinion because either way I'll be racist . I'll see how the thread goes first.
But it is a good thread!

pretty good analysis Chum12788. that's probably what would happen!

[butterfly1964]

since i don't hear any other replies, then i guess liston wins!

[Yogi]

****ing Heavyweights!

Anyways, I personally think that both fought better competition that they're often given credit for on here. But off the top of my head, if I was forced to choose between the two resumes, I'd probably & maybe slightly lean towards Marciano having the better "victims" out of the two.

****ing Heavyweights!

[butterfly1964]

****ing Heavyweights!

Anyways, I personally think that both fought better competition that they're often given credit for on here. But off the top of my head, if I was forced to choose between the two resumes, I'd probably & maybe slightly lean towards Marciano having the better "victims" out of the two.

****ing Heavyweights!

yeah, but they were over the hill.

[SuzieQ49]

marciano beat 2 great heavyweights: ezzard charles and jersey joe walcott


liston beat 1 great heavyweight: floyd patterson



marciano beat 4 very good heavyweights/dangerous top contenders: Archie Moore, Roland Lastarza, Rex Layne, past prime Joe Louis



liston beat 3 very good heavyweights/dangerous top contenders: Eddie machen, cleveland williams, zora folley






IMO beating charles, walcott, moore, lastarza, past prime louis, layne are better wins than patterson, machen, williams, folley, mike de john, wayne bethea

[butterfly1964]

marciano beat 2 great heavyweights: ezzard charles and jersey joe walcott


liston beat 1 great heavyweight: floyd patterson



marciano beat 4 very good heavyweights/dangerous top contenders: Archie Moore, Roland Lastarza, Rex Layne, past prime Joe Louis



liston beat 3 very good heavyweights/dangerous top contenders: Eddie machen, cleveland williams, zora folley






IMO beating charles, walcott, moore, lastarza, past prime louis, layne are better wins than patterson, machen, williams, folley, mike de john, wayne bethea

patterson, williams, folley and machen were in their primes. charles, watcott, moore, and louis were not.

[SuzieQ49]

patterson, williams, folley and machen were in their primes. charles, watcott, moore, and louis were not.

walcott and moore were in there primes.

charles of the 1st marciano fight was still better than anyone liston beat.

louis was well past it, but was still a formidable fighter



the 1950s version of louis is just as good as folley, williams and machen.