Rocky Marciano's punching power

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BIG H what you say makes absolutly no sence. From one weight up almost all guys can KO an oder guy with a single punch and this does not exclude Rocky! I will ask you something. Why big George boxed at only 99,7kg or 220 lbs? For me this is the guy with the most solid structure that i have ever seen! He can get really easy 200kg if he wishes(he was actually near this weight ) Joe Louis boxed at 207 really ripped and was far from "smal" guy. The so called hardest hitting boxer Shavers boxed at 211 and he was far from the condition of Louis. He could have lost some more weight! I think you get the picture. There is no need to be gigantish in order to punch hard. Being so big like the sisters destroys the stamina no mater of the conditioning! This means unnecessery bulking is bad! You can look cool but it's not a bodybuilding competition! Rocky could have been 110/120 kg no problem with this stocky italian build, but is it neccessery? Would have this helped him punching harder or take punch better? NO! Would have this imobilized him and destoyed his working rate? YES! As i said it's not about punching power anymore, but effective punching and consistancy!
Dark Lord Al i think you haven't watch the fight in details... In this fight you see why the smal guys are not to be underrestemated! All the power punches which were landed were from Tuas side. The only thing that Lewis did was destroying Tuas frisure and clinching! It was all Tuas fout that he loosed the fight, but this is an oder subject!
What i want to say is that the skills, condition and style are playing much more bigger role than the size and after some dimentions the size don't help, but exactly the oposite is true!

Totally disagree with just about everything you say mate. Whether you accept it or not, people are just bigger now!! The average height of a man in the 60s was 5 ft 8, it is now 5 ft 11. The average weight was 166 pounds it's now 191 pounds. When I was at school I was a big tall kid at 5 ft 11. If I go in a pub now I am a midget. Rocky Marciano coulld never have been 120 Kgs without either being fat or built like Mariusz Pudzianowski. I totally accept size is not everything and I know all of the arguments about shorter fighters, look how Tyson used his height (or lack thereof) and lateral movement. But we are not talking about slight size differences. George Foreman was the biggest most fearsome sized heavyweight at 220 pounds, that's about the size of Adamnek. I'm not saying Tyson or Foreman couldn't live with today's heavyweights, but for Marciano it would be a bridge too far imo. We have even had to introduce a new division and subsequently change the max weight of that division to 205 pounds, because of the size that heavyweight boxers now are. If we were talking about 20 pounds, Marciano's ability woud bridge the gap in size. But giving away 65 pounds to a fighter like Vitali.....

As for Tua, that fight was a shut out, Lewis schooled him and Tua was probaly heavier than Lewis anyway

I thought the average height of a man was 5'9 mate ? in the UK anyway, as for Mike Tyson he was only 5'11 but he was 220 pound beast. He was knocking out big 6'3 plus guys like Ruddock, Williams, Holmes, Biggs, easily.

Im sorry but no way would either of the Klitschko brothers, beat a prime Mike Tyson. Carl Williams was 6'5 and a skilled Heavyweight, and Tyrell Biggs was 6'6 and skilled aswell.

And neither of them could keep Mike Tyson off them, both men didn't have the best chins in the world. But neither has Wladimir Klitschko, and even Vitali Klitschko's chin would shatter eventually.

I wasn't talking about Tyson, I was talking about Marciano

Yea i know i was just talking generally really, because im hearing alot of people saying Klitschko brothers, would beat Mike Tyson because of there height nonsense IMO mate.

[BIG H]

BIG H what you say makes absolutly no sence. From one weight up almost all guys can KO an oder guy with a single punch and this does not exclude Rocky! I will ask you something. Why big George boxed at only 99,7kg or 220 lbs? For me this is the guy with the most solid structure that i have ever seen! He can get really easy 200kg if he wishes(he was actually near this weight ) Joe Louis boxed at 207 really ripped and was far from "smal" guy. The so called hardest hitting boxer Shavers boxed at 211 and he was far from the condition of Louis. He could have lost some more weight! I think you get the picture. There is no need to be gigantish in order to punch hard. Being so big like the sisters destroys the stamina no mater of the conditioning! This means unnecessery bulking is bad! You can look cool but it's not a bodybuilding competition! Rocky could have been 110/120 kg no problem with this stocky italian build, but is it neccessery? Would have this helped him punching harder or take punch better? NO! Would have this imobilized him and destoyed his working rate? YES! As i said it's not about punching power anymore, but effective punching and consistancy!
Dark Lord Al i think you haven't watch the fight in details... In this fight you see why the smal guys are not to be underrestemated! All the power punches which were landed were from Tuas side. The only thing that Lewis did was destroying Tuas frisure and clinching! It was all Tuas fout that he loosed the fight, but this is an oder subject!
What i want to say is that the skills, condition and style are playing much more bigger role than the size and after some dimentions the size don't help, but exactly the oposite is true!

Totally disagree with just about everything you say mate. Whether you accept it or not, people are just bigger now!! The average height of a man in the 60s was 5 ft 8, it is now 5 ft 11. The average weight was 166 pounds it's now 191 pounds. When I was at school I was a big tall kid at 5 ft 11. If I go in a pub now I am a midget. Rocky Marciano coulld never have been 120 Kgs without either being fat or built like Mariusz Pudzianowski. I totally accept size is not everything and I know all of the arguments about shorter fighters, look how Tyson used his height (or lack thereof) and lateral movement. But we are not talking about slight size differences. George Foreman was the biggest most fearsome sized heavyweight at 220 pounds, that's about the size of Adamnek. I'm not saying Tyson or Foreman couldn't live with today's heavyweights, but for Marciano it would be a bridge too far imo. We have even had to introduce a new division and subsequently change the max weight of that division to 205 pounds, because of the size that heavyweight boxers now are. If we were talking about 20 pounds, Marciano's ability woud bridge the gap in size. But giving away 65 pounds to a fighter like Vitali.....

As for Tua, that fight was a shut out, Lewis schooled him and Tua was probaly heavier than Lewis anyway

I thought the average height of a man was 5'9 mate ? in the UK anyway, as for Mike Tyson he was only 5'11 but he was 220 pound beast. He was knocking out big 6'3 plus guys like Ruddock, Williams, Holmes, Biggs, easily.

Im sorry but no way would either of the Klitschko brothers, beat a prime Mike Tyson. Carl Williams was 6'5 and a skilled Heavyweight, and Tyrell Biggs was 6'6 and skilled aswell.

And neither of them could keep Mike Tyson off them, both men didn't have the best chins in the world. But neither has Wladimir Klitschko, and even Vitali Klitschko's chin would shatter eventually.

I wasn't talking about Tyson, I was talking about Marciano

Yea i know i was just talking generally really, because im hearing alot of people saying Klitschko brothers, would beat Mike Tyson because of there height nonsense IMO mate.

Well you know my theory on Tyson we've debated it loads over the years. I still think that on his night he could've beaten just about anybody in history. After the Spinks fight every man, woman,child and more importantly 'boxing expert' would've had Tyson only behind Ali as an ATHG. Had he have retired that fight, everybody would still feel the same. For me, what happend afterwards did not reveal a weakness and something that was always going to happen when he fought better opposition. He always had physcological weaknesses and self doubt, but they never stopped him being the fighter he was. Against Douglas he was undoubtedly completely underprepared mentally and physically (being a 42-1 favourite in a 2 horse race illustrates how easy it was supposed to be). He had lost Jimmy Jacobs, his marriage was on the ropes and I think he was probably on drugs too (but that's just my opinion) He also happened to meet an unbelievably good Buster Douglas (and still gave him a long count) After the Douglas fight we all know what happend.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

You know... It's only just occurred to me, how similar a young Tyson & Marciano are, style wise.... Ridiculous side-to-side-movement aside... They look very similar.

Watch Marciano Louis the Tyson Spinks and hopefully you'll see what I mean.