Quote Originally Posted by leftylee
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Big H is right mate, Marciano's quality of opposition imo was inferior to Calzaghe's.

He only just beat a Jersey Joe Walcott who was almost 40, the oldest world champ until George Foreman reclaimed his throne in the 90's and a man who had lost 4 previous world title attempts/

He was the 50's Frank Bruno and it was shaemful that Marciano was behind upto the 12th round, Ali would have made Walcott look like a fool, and guys like Lewis, Tyson, Foreman etc would have annihilated him inside 3 rounds.

Most observers felt Marciano lost his first fight to La Starza a light heavy. Charles also was a light heavy as was Archie Moore.

Marciano never beat a legitimate great hevyweight (or even fought one) unless you count an ancient Joe Louis brought back to boxing a broken and destitute man thanks to the American taxman.

He was the best fighter of his era no doubt, but his era probably sucked more than the current one. In fact with guys like Toney, Roy Jones etc moving upto heavyweight and old champs like Holyfield coming back it has many parallels.