Bert Sugar on Rocky Marciano's legacy and the state of the Heavyweight Division

http://www.streetgangs.com/features/062710_rocky_marciano

Bert Sugar talking about the undefeated record of Rocky Marciano (49-0) and his 6 greatest fights.

Should there be a super heavy weight division? Why are there so few American heavy weight fighters today?

Which two current NFL football players would be great heavy weight fighters today according to Bert Sugar?

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[haitianjack5]

gotta love bert sugar. 

[steelerspensdominate]

Bert is right about the best athletes/heavyweights in America going into football. Not sure what can be done to stop it.

[tonyfressola]

Funny, Urlacher best heavyweight in America!!

[tonyfressola]

Most knowledgable man in boxing. I can listen to him all day long.

[kellybob94]

Heavyweight division is too in consistent now, You can get 30 pound weight differences between fighters

[edwards21416]

on the other hand some fighters know all there is to know at a later age and some are in the prime Rocky would have beaten them at any age he won and pople still try to take that away ,stamina increases in older fighters speed not so so you ahve to weight all these things up 43 ko's not bad

[crowley0312]

@bigmoney749 Overall, Rocky's not overrated. He's a top 5 Heavyweight because in every one of his 25-49 fights, people always said he couldn't do it. He was considered overrated back then too. But he always beat the odds. Rocky fought and beat everyone he was supposed to, and that's what a champion is expected to do, yet most of them don't. Rocky isn't overrated at all.

[crowley0312]

@bigmoney749 Realize Louis still gave the fight 100%. He sparred with a similar fighter to Marciano and was the favorite to win. Not a prime Louis, but a difficult opponent. Sonny got his jaw broken by an unknown guy, and because of his crime past, a shot wasn't even considered for him until the time Floyd had regained the title. As for Floyd and Ingemar, I think Rocky decided, "why not just step down and let one of these great fighters get their turn." If he beat them, he'd spend them back.

[bigmoney749]

@Freddie1980 A good big guy usually beats a good small guy. Jack Dempsey was far more skilled than Jess Willard who beat a less-than-formidable Jack Johnson, and if boxing back then had the same rules it has today, that fight would've looked very different, though Dempsey stilled probably would've won.

[Freddie1980]

@bigmoney749 - To automatically assume that big guy will have his own way over a smaller guy is a bit naive. For example Jess Willard was 6' 7" 250 Lbs a man who knocked the formidable Jack Johnson got smacked from pillar to post by a 6' 190 lbs Jack Dempsey.

[domamania]

@bigmoney749 why dont you take ali's average of oponents age and compare it to marcianos. i mean look at cooper. what a joke.

[bigmoney749]

@gibememoni First of all, 37 is old, and it was ancient for Joe Louis. Floyd won the heavyweight title six months after Rocky retired. Sonny wasn't well established when Rocky retired but he was still good and Ingemar was respectable. All three of them were young and talented and better than anyone Rocky ever fought. Rocky might've beat Floyd if he could fight his fight which is no guarantee, but Sonny, who would've been Rocky's biggest opponent, would've manhandled him. Rocky is overrated.