Where Do You Place Rocky Marciano in Your Heavyweight Top 10?

[Levity]

When people say he'd KO a Mike Tyson, or Rid**** Bowe or Lennox Lewis - I really can't take that seriously.

Fun fact, Marciano is the heavyweight champion with the shortest reach in history. Just 69" or around what a normal WW has today.

I agree, and in today's era of massive cutting and same day weigh-ins he'd probably be a super middleweight.

[LacedUp]

I agree, and in today's era of massive cutting and same day weigh-ins he'd probably be a super middleweight.

He would most likely be a cruiserweight.

[Levity]

He would most likely be a cruiserweight.

Why? He was way under the CW limit in many of his bouts and they featured same day weigh-ins.

[Holywarrior]

Some food for thought :

Nice vid.

[Ryn0]

Bottom half, Holmes, Ali, Louis, Lewis, Foreman are all definitely above him. After that it is debatable between Dempsey, Tyson, Frazier, Liston probably eventually Wlad and Marciano, Holyfield etc. A few guys will have to miss out. Marciano is probably sitting around 7th/8th

[Holywarrior]

Bottom half, Holmes, Ali, Louis, Lewis, Foreman are all definitely above him. After that it is debatable between Dempsey, Tyson, Frazier, Liston probably eventually Wlad and Marciano, Holyfield etc. A few guys will have to miss out. Marciano is probably sitting around 7th/8th

This post is almost spot on. Holyfield and Marciano would've killed eachother. Frazier too. Yikes

[GoldenGloveLove]

There dey go, theeere dey go........

[BrokenHat]

louis was actually favored to beat marciano so he wasnt exactly a corpse,,lol. that said,,,its really hard rating marciano very high. he had the big undefeated record but would struggle mightilly imo against the top 10 atg at there primes. id probably put him just outside the top 10 but thats debatable

R u serious? Louis was favored?

Man, he was 36 fat and retired when he started to train for the fight, forced to fight to pay tax bills, no other reason. But history makes many dumb mistakes.

I don't know how Marciano would've done against a prime Louis, but my guess is that Marciano gets koed eventually. At the least, it would've been a brutal war that probably would've left Marciano a different fighter.

No doubt Marciano was a killer, who would just attack your shoulder and kill your arms with his straights and hooks, but again Marciano never got shop worn because he basically only took easy fights.

Who cares how good he may theoretically have been? He doesn't have the resume to be top ten. Period.

[bklynboy]

R u serious? Louis was favored?

Man, he was 36 fat and retired when he started to train for the fight, forced to fight to pay tax bills, no other reason. But history makes many dumb mistakes.

I don't know how Marciano would've done against a prime Louis, but my guess is that Marciano gets koed eventually. At the least, it would've been a brutal war that probably would've left Marciano a different fighter.

No doubt Marciano was a killer, who would just attack your shoulder and kill your arms with his straights and hooks, but again Marciano never got shop worn because he basically only took easy fights.

Who cares how good he may theoretically have been? He doesn't have the resume to be top ten. Period.

He wasn't fat and retired (although he was older and past prime). Louis fought 8 fights or so in the two years before facing Marciano. He was considered to be the No 1 contender in 1950 and no 6 (or so) in 1951. He beat some highly ranked guys such as Lee Savold and Jimmy Bivens in the months leading up to the Marciano fight.

Was Joe Louis prime? Hell no. But he wasn't fat and retired either.