Who Would Draw More Viewers Today: Sugar Ray Robinson or Rocky Marciano

[John Cameron]

That is a great question, as Marciano's latest biographer (Redemption: The Life & Death of Rocky Marciano - due to be released soon initially as an ebook) I can tie these two together to an event that almost happened, after Louis' defeat at the hands of Marciano Robinson planned his revenge, first he was to fight Maxim for the light-heavy crown then he would move up to heavy and fight the rising contender Marciano before having a crack at that title too. As we all know now he lost the title challenge to Maxim, more through the heat than the superiority of his opponent yet still he hankered after facing Marciano in order to avenge his friend, that is until Louis himself advised him against it...It is a shame that the fight never happened because it would have answered many questions regarding these two legends...

[Spicoli]

Robinson hands down. I'd just pay top dollar to see Robinson at Mayweather vs Cotto so Floyd could tell him face to face that Ray wasn't the best there was. Honest question...would Marciano, seeing as how it's 'peak', be in at 195 or go to today's heavy?

[Althugz]

Marciano would draw more.

- White
- Heavyweight
- Hit Hard
- Had that ugly brawling style like Hatton that casual fans oddly seem to like.

It would have been no contest imo.

Although, it depends how SRR was built up and the state of the heavyweight division if Marciano was in it. For example, we don't see Wladimir Klitschko outselling Floyd Mayweather's PPV's..Although the missing ingredient is that Marciano's fights were probably considered way more exciting than Wladimir's are..

Quite a few variables - I'd personally watch SRR all day long over Marciano