How to shake free of Old School bias.

[holmcall]

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[Master]

Rocky was the greatest Cruiserweight champion so you have shaken the old school bias by admitting that. Others have him as the greatest heavy ever, which is wrong.

[El Kabong]

Rocky was the greatest Cruiserweight champion so you have shaken the old school bias by admitting that. Others have him as the greatest heavy ever, which is wrong.

I still rate him as a heavyweight because the guys he fought were the heavyweights of his era and he could only fight the guys of his era. His record (as a heavyweight) stands out, untarnished by any losses. He had a weak era and he dealt with it the way a great champion would, he never lost.

However if I was matching Rocky in any hypothetical matches guys from 175 to cruiserweight are the best matches for him just given his size. Same goes for Jack Dempsey who weighed around 195ish. Also Jack Johnson weighed pretty light at 200-210. Joe Louis weighed in at around 210-215 as did the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali. In their primes Tyson and Holyfield never tipped the scales too terribly heavy either.

I think Rocky would have whipped the crap out of Tomaz Adamek...wouldn't that have been a hell of a brawl?

Shit now you have me thinking Rocky vs:
Hopkins
James Toney
Antonio Tarver
Montell Griffin
BERT COOPER

....man those would have been some great style match ups

[holmcall]

Rocky was the greatest Cruiserweight champion so you have shaken the old school bias by admitting that. Others have him as the greatest heavy ever, which is wrong.

Exactly!