Rocky Marciano: a schiester?

[Master]

Rocky Marciano was and is the greatest Heavyweight Champion ever.

He was lucky to have missed Liston by a few years, he would have been Knocked out inside 2 rounds by the bear!

Rocky must have been very tempted to get 50 wins but his age and poor back was the reason he did not try one more. The closest he came was when Johansson KO ed Patterson, but even then he knew he was too old. Leave the great legacy and man alone.

[ICB]

The fact is Rocky Marciano fought everyone, he needed to fight and avoided no one. You can't blame Rocky Marciano for the era not being like the 70's, he beat every man infront of him and thats all counts to me. Plus to the people saying Rocky Marciano isn't skilled.

Well doesn't that mean he done brilliantly well, then for not being skilled ? 49-0 and being one of the top 10 Heavyweights of all time for not being skilled ? just makes Rocky Marciano look that much better.

[generalbulldog]

I'm not going by 2nd hand accounts about Marciano's character being sleazy like that. One thing for sure is that the man had tremendous heart and beat everyone that he faced. And for a guy supposedly having no skills that's one hell of an achievement to go undefeated in your career.