On their very best night who wins the all time heavyweight prizefighter competition?

[ICB]

Rocky Marciano out-smokes 'em all by crouching down below their range, and coming up from the floor with rib-shattering hooks and vein-bursting uppercuts under the armpits. NO GADDAM WAY IN HELL ANYBODY EVER BEATS THIS SONOFABITCH.

He was small cruiserweight. To think that he would beat someboidy like Vitali is crazy!

Could Rocky Marciano even reach Vitali Klitschko ? LOL he had very short arms aswell didn't he ? like 67 inches ?

[greynotsoold]

To me it is an interesting proposition, because, at some point being so much taller quits being an advantage. Being 6'7" and fighting a 5'10" guy, that fights out of a crouch in which his weight is back and away from the jab/right hand (as opposed to Frazier who, looking for the left hook, had his wt forward, thus easier to hit with jabs/right hands), is not an enviable position. Do you want to reach with a jab or right hand, or jab down, at a guy that his always looking to wing a right hand? Because you'd be leaning right into it, and I'm pretty sure that a 190 pound guy, as fit and strong as Marciano could hurt anybody he hit on the chin with his right hand. And his work rate, unless the taller guy could tie him or lay on him up close, would be a factor.