Rocky Marciano ~ 'A Fight Between Cassius Clay and Me Would Have Been Horrible'

[Max Power]

yes but the thing about Marciano was he would use his size as an advantage. Charlie goldman told Rocky to make himself even smaller than he already was. This was his great advantage like a reverse psychology

I've always had problems using statistical arguments with regards to Marciano because his numbers are not representative.

He beat all of his opponents and stopped most of them. But this has to be tempered with the fact that he only ever even fought about 12 opponents which were over 200lbs and every single one of those were utter bums with no relevance.

None of this lends credit for or against his chances against Ali, so it really all comes down to opinion.

Rocky was a tough bastard but Clay fought superior competition as much as it pains me to say that. Rocky's style was that of a little plodder, he was NO Mike Tyson by any measure. Clay was really the first HW boxer to get up on his toes, get his work done and try to get out of there at the first sign of danger. He was still very scrappy but in one of those rare moments for his defence I feel he has to be considered as kind of like the prototype for what we see today, tall mobile fighters who try to keep their opponent at range.

I never seen anything that convincing in Rocky's performance which leads me to believe he has anything but the punchers chance which I already gave him credit for.

Henry might have wasted Clay, but Henry also got belted out the next round too. If Marciano was better than Cooper, he was not that much better.