the same oppostion—just something i will never understand
joe louis was the one of the greatest but marciano was just some bum who got lucky 4 his time.
same pple prasie louis but discredit rocky–which is just ignorance
joe louis lost 2 a washed up schmeling—schmeling was the worst example that germany used as its “man”. schmeling is way overrated.
joe louis beat bums , hasbeens, oldmen ans wash up champions. but rocky haters will ironically continue 2 prasie louis.—makes no sense
rocky beat and old man 4 the title…so did louis(walcott was much more dangerous title holder than braddock ever was)
rocky beat washed up champs—so did louis(only more)
marciano fought bums on his way up-------louis fough bums for title defenses and his way up
point being: dont hate marciano and praise louis–cuz it f****** stupid
this post in no way discredits or slander louis—just used 2 prove a point
i quite agree they both deserve props for their time in the ring. discrediting one will most likely result in discrediting the other. however if they would have fought in their primes I would have picked louis over marciano.
I have seen a lot of Rocky bashing on this forum and it has always perplexed me. I think that a lot of it is just plain ignorance.
Some people just don’t understand the human body. Rocky was a very small heavy and yet he managed to devestate sooo many boxers and basically go undefeated. Thats impressive no matter how you cut it.
It always seems like if someone does’t like a fighter they will always say that “the competition in his era was weak”
Bottom line is, if you are a good champion, you are bound to make the rest of the division look weak because you are beating the shit out of all of them.
alot of fighters have this problem with their legacies. It is simply rare to have 3-5 great hw’s around at the same time. I think Joe had a slightly better resume but there is no arguing that its fluffed up with alot of bums. Its hard to fault any fighter for retiring at 49-0 and staying that way, but Rock could have helped his legacy quite a bit by fighting Liston and Patterson when he still would have been in his mid 30’s. I put Joe in my top three and Rock in my top ten all time HW’s
The '72 Dolphins are the only undefeated team in NFL history. The '85 Bears are the greatest team in NFL history. You wanna know why? Because the Dolphins were just a bunch of mediocre over-achievers who played during a lackluster talented era. Same principle here. Accept it and move on.
They were mostly all small heavyweights back then. Rocky wasn’t that small compared to the weights of other fighters during that era. Most were below 200 lbs.
Because Joe Louis dominated a weak Heavyweight division but he fought the best in that era. And Marciano got through an even weaker era where he didn’t even fight all the best of that weaker era
Bullshit Once again, the guy was an undersized heavy and still went out there and beat the shit out of everyone. Undefeated in boxing is a little different than football.
What he did was impressive but some people don’t like him.
I just posted something like this elsewhere. Want to know Louis assessment of Marciano? Marciano’s assessment of Louis?
When Marciano knocked out Louis, he turned away, he said so Louis wouldn’t see him crying.
When Marciano died in the plane crash, Louis showed up at the funeral and quietly kissed the casket to everyone’s shock.
Sad click me if you want to. Just my assessment of the two greatest fighters of all time (Ali and Robinson were the two greatest boxers of all time, there is a difference).
FUNNY -Walcott was heavyweight champ, so he was the best at the time
yeah marciano’s era was weaker than louis’s , ezzard charles and walcott were in no better than billy con, washed up schmeling (cmon if marciano beat up a washed up schmeling we would neva hear the end of it), or an old braddock ::**
Just like baseball has eras, the 20s being the booze era, the 90s-00s being the steroid era, heavyweight boxing also has eras. The 70s were the golden era, the 90s were the exciting era, the 50s was the midget era. sorry
