49-0 with 43 Knockouts --- never happen again

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Once in a while (and it has been a LONG while) I gotta post on Rocky. What a tribute to the sport of Boxing he was.

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I think your being a bit kind to him with that stat of 43 KO-S

19 of wins 49 wins were TKOs, 7 by UD and the rest 26)were by KO....still a fearsome record to be fair.....but KO is 7,8, 9, 10

Plus he got lucky, he did not fight a prime Joe Louis, and he left the sport before Liston and Ali came along

Who knows ? He may have beaten them both. But I for one doubt it.

@denilson200 YOu are correct and I have always said it, Joe Louis should not even have been in the ring at that point. Nor should Archie Moore have been, but Moore fought 9 more years after that!! So he wasnt as shot as some people want to say. Archie actually blossomed in his late 30s as a fighter believe it or not.

I believe Ezzard Charles however was only 32 or 33 years old when they fought and Charles was one of the craftiest, wiliest fighters of all time so I think Rocky just out-muscled him in both those fights. No way am I buying that Ezzard Charles was over-the-hill. Louis and Moore absolutely YES. And of course JJ Walcott, yes pretty much over the hill. I mean nowadays 37, 38 years old for heavies aint shit, they still fight now into their 40s.

As for me being "nice" Denilson, I dont really see it that way as his official record IS INDEED 43 knockouts of 49 wins.

(where did you get that 19 KO's? Maybe I misunderstood. Guess youre talking about stone-cold knocked out vis a vis a stoppage?)

You mentioned 2 fighters who I think COULD have beaten Marciano, though one of them said on 2 occasions that Marciano was better than Joe Frazier (who he fought 3 times so I think he knew about Joe intimately) and that Marciano may indeed have beaten him or knocked him out. As for Liston, that would have been a frikkin slugfest, it would have been amazing. Guess it could have gone either way. Of course I would favor Rocky as he and George Foreman and Aaron Pryor are my 3 favorite fighter of all time.