Rocky Marciano: Read this before smeone makes you look ****** with the facts!

[The Raging Bull]

You got that right Yaman. He was ONE of the greatest fighters ever. There everything is settled

[Hard Boiled HK]

i never look at colour when watching boxing.....

I never take into consideration the color of one's skin while watching anything.

[Toddy]

superb choice of words "hard boiled hk" and "micky_knox"

[hellfire508]

My favourite fighters are predominately white, though I never realised it until I was reading recent posts in this thread. Tszyu, De La Hoya, Morales and Gatti are all white or hispanic. However, my favourite fighter hands down, Muhammad Ali, is black. Plus Ray Leonard and Ray Robinson who are up there, come after the others, so its all good. But the thing is I would never even think of that until people brought it to my attention. Fighters shouldn't be judged by colour.

Nonetheless, Mexican fighters are probably my favourite - for their style. Hell-for-leather, never give in. Of course, there are plenty of these guys from other races, but it seems to be the a "true" Mexican fighter must be, if that makes sense.

I am Australian BTW, so no bias.

[RockyMarcianofan00]

One of the greatest fighters ever lived.

yep ......

[Hard Boiled HK]

superb choice of words "hard boiled hk" and "micky_knox"

Why, thank you.

[QueensburyRules]

43 KNOCK OUTS in 49 fights!
88% Knockout ratio

Didnt fight anyone special? Rocky Marciano has one of the most impressive resumes in any divisions history.

-Archie Moore -------------- Recognized as top 5
-"Jersey" Joe Walcott twice - One of the top 10
-Joe Louis ------------------ Recognized as best boxer in history
-Phil Muscato
-Freddie Beshore
-Harry "Kid" Matthews
-Ezzard Charles (Twice)
-Roland LaStanza (Twice) --- One of the top five chins in history

Its not just that he fought legends, he beat them all, mostly by KO.

Rocky Marciano has the highest percentage of KOs than any other Heavyweight boxer in history at 88%. We already came to a conclusion that its more impressive than George Foremans record of his fist 49 fights as Rocky Marciano fought 2X's as many legends and even more iron chins.





Rocky Marciano had his own defensive style of boxing, it was sloppy looking, but incredibly successful. It was much harder to land any punch on Marciano as he would duck more throw his body back and jump around than what it would seem. Check out his moves here.

The Greatest Heavyweight Champion EVER!
My rating: 5 out of 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZr3wYOFQA
Comments: Rocky Marciano was an Italian-American boxer who is the greatest Heavyweight champion to ever box, he is the only heavyweight champion to have retire UDEFEATED after FOUR YEARS of holding the title. He fought the best and he beat the best. A huge achievement that noone else has equaled. Heres a famous clip of his knockout of Joe Louis, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpq9ZVBZ98

Still dont believe me? Fine dont take my word, take the word of the Legends that lost to him.





asked where Marciano had improved most between the first and second fights:


Others




Ali said he was surprised at how hard it was to land a hit on Marciano when they had the exhibition, the computer match.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/A...//Rocky13.html


Arguement that Marciano only beat people past their prime.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/A...//Rocky13.html

Seems to me these facts speak louder than anything else. Marcianos age difference is actually lower than all of the other legends when they won their titles.

Their was a ten year age difference between Moore and Marciano, significant but not nearly as bad as some of the above, and they are more well known that Marciano.

Check this out, Floyd Patterson was 21 years younger than Archie Moore and Archie KOed him by the fifth round. This happened after Marciano KOed Archie Moore.

http://www.fighttoys.com/Moore%20record.htm

And it took Tyson 12 rounds, in his prime, to win a fight with James Smith by desicion. Tyson was 14 years younger than James Smith

http://www.fighttoys.com/Tyson%20record.htm
If you think winning a desicion over James Smith, who the hell is that, with a 14 year age difference is more impressive than KOing a man 10 years older than you that has gone down in history as one of the finest men in boxing you are the most biased person on these boards.


in 1969 Marciano had an exhibition match when at 46 years old with a much younger Muhammad Ali who had was already established himself as the greatest. The 46 year old Marciano beat Ali. You can argue the computer was wrong, we all know computers are unreliable.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/A...//alirock.html


Punching power


How could a 5'10 185lb man be so powerful? He was simply the most conditioned fighter to ever enter the ring. Noone will argue with you on that one. He was 185lbs but more powerful than most 200+lb punchers.

- -Impressive donnybrook worthy of past generations.

[QueensburyRules]

babe ruth is overrated. he played at a time where the pitchers weren't as skilled as today. he was a lard ass. he wasn't an athlete period. he just hit home runs basically given to him by pitchers who weren't that good. ruth couldn't field, he couldn't steal bases, or anything. mays was light years better than ruth in everyway. ruth only hit all those home runs cause he played at yankee stadium. if mays played in yankee stadium and not at the polo grounds, then he would have alot more home runs than ruth, and this is a fact! yankee stadium was shorter than any stadium, and you didn't have to hit the ball that far in order to get a home run. ruth is an overated fat piece of ****, just like bird is an overrated slow, clumsy neanderthal, and just like marciano was a slow, unskilled cruiserweight, who never beat any hof hw's in their primes.

- -Prime Butterfly was a beautiful thing to behold he got stuck on flypaper.

C'est la vie!

[QueensburyRules]

like i said again moron. what does that have to do with rocky, why do i wanna know other ppl's age's in comparision? i'm stating a fact that he fought past there prime and over the hill guys. and u have yet to say ne thing about this in ne of my post, its like u avoid it. i'll jus keep copying and pasting until u answer the question so u can shut the **** up already. you've avoiding the question like barry bonds and steroid questions

- -BALCO Barry back in the day!