Re: Marciano didn't "nurse" his '0' losses
People on here are so binary, and we don't live in a binary world. It seems that either Marciano is one of the greatest fighters who ever lived and who could compete with anybody, or he was a small unskilled white guy fighting hand picked nobodies. As usual, the truth will be somewhere between those black and white terms.
It's hard to say who could have defeated somebody who was never beaten! It also seems to me that Marciano didn't duck anybody (and Al Weil made all his fights anyway, Rocky would have had little say in who he fought or ducked). He beat everyone in his era and the 1950s was a tough competitive time to be a fighter. He fought for three minutes of every round for 15 rounds, was certainly one of the fittest guys who ever stepped into a ring and his power and chin were tested many times ...lol he came through every test.
Yes, he was a small heavyweight, but he was a small heavyweight in the 1950s too and that didn't seem to matter too much. Yes, he was a white Italian at a time of mob influence, but nothing has ever been proven and nobody has ever come out with a compelling argument to convince me that people took dives against him. If you're going to take a dive, you wouldn't fight like Walcott, Charles and Louis did. Yes, he got cut easily and might have been stopped by today's referees, but he wasn't stopped.
Comparing old time fighters to today's fighters is pointless.mthe sport has changed,mthe rules have changed, the gloves have changed, nutrition has changed, human beings size has changed.
I think Marciano is one of boxing great great champions. Others may disagree but one thing is certain ..... 60 years after he last fought and decades after his death, the ghost of Rocky Marciano continues to haunt every heavyweight who came after him.
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