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  • Dark Destroyer
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    #41
    Originally posted by barryboy
    I'd take Rocky every time, both guys were pretty relentless but I just feel that Marciano was a bit more durable and a better all round fighter but what a war that would be.
    Yeah it would have been unbelievable. What do you think would have been the biggest fight of all time if it could have been arranged? I'm talking between any fighter of weight from any era on a pound for pound kind of level.

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    • barryboy
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      #42
      I suppose a huge fight would be Sugar Ray Robinson v Muhammad Ali. don't know how exciting it would be but it would be big box office
      I'd like to see Tyson/Marciano for some explosive action with Tyson winning early, he doesn't get into my top 5 whereas Rocky does but that's for their overall careers, for this one fight Tyson would win within 5 rounds.

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      • Dark Destroyer
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        #43
        Originally posted by barryboy
        I suppose a huge fight would be Sugar Ray Robinson v Muhammad Ali. don't know how exciting it would be but it would be big box office
        I'd like to see Tyson/Marciano for some explosive action with Tyson winning early, he doesn't get into my top 5 whereas Rocky does but that's for their overall careers, for this one fight Tyson would win within 5 rounds.
        That was an awkward question for me to ask, i've thought about that many times myself but still cannot think of the ultimate fight in boxing history. Yours is a good pick although i cannot decide what would happen myself. lol. Both were elite at what they did and could box well although on a pound for pound level i think i would give Robinson the power advantage.

        Tyson Vs Marciano would be an great fight, two heavy punchers going at it. A prime Mike Tyson was devastating and no matter what crap happened later on in his career he was still perhaps one of the most brutal heavyweights of all time when he was younger. That explosive power was awesome, you could feel his pressence all over the ring. I miss the old eye thing of his, if i was his opponenet then you would smell a funny odur coming from my butt.

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        • barryboy
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          #44
          Yeah i'd give Ali the speed advantadge with Robinson getting the edge in power but don't ask me to choose a winner
          Another great fight would be Chavez v Duran, that would be a classic, I can't make up my mind on that one either

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            #45
            Originally posted by barryboy
            Yeah i'd give Ali the speed advantadge with Robinson getting the edge in power but don't ask me to choose a winner
            Another great fight would be Chavez v Duran, that would be a classic, I can't make up my mind on that one either
            Chavez Vs Duran hmmmmmm the thing that is quite embarressing with me on these two is that i haven't seen alot of their fights. The thing with Chavez was his power in his hands but i suppose they didn't call Roberto hands of stone for nothing. I think about Roberto and think how Marviin Hagler couldn't stop him and then i think would he take this on points?

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              #46
              I think it would be a distance fight either way, both guys had solid chins, maybe Duran gets a slight edge cos' he's naturally the bigger man but both were probably best at lightweight.

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                #47
                Originally posted by barryboy
                I think it would be a distance fight either way, both guys had solid chins, maybe Duran gets a slight edge cos' he's naturally the bigger man but both were probably best at lightweight.
                You maybe right although what happened to Duran in the Hearns fight? I was shocked the first time i saw that, i guess Hearns power must have just overwhelmed him. Hearns tried the same with Hagler but Hagler just took then all and kept charging forward.

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                • barryboy
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                  #48
                  That's probably where Duran being a natural lightweight and Hagler the middleweight came into play and Hearns as we know was massive even for 154 at the time, that was one of my favourite ko's though, nobody did that to Duran before or since.

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                    #49
                    Vit
                    Vlad
                    Rocky Marciano
                    Max Shmeling
                    Jack Dempsey

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                    • LuKahnLi
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                      #50
                      Ali
                      Louis
                      Holmes
                      Foreman
                      Marciano

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