BoxRec

( aired live Friday.Oct.26. 10 pm EST on NBC-TV and radio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bmvHeqzXhA

My question is,what if Marciano had fought Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore in this more upright manner
would it have been more difficult for him to win or would he have knocked them out sooner??

(BTW That protrubrunce on Louis's left shoulder was a cyst which he later had removed )

lorenzo1791 wrote:Your "source" for the 1951 Louis-Marciano fight is a 2012 article by internet boxing authority Springs Toledo [LOL] in the "sweetscience" blog?

Do you believe everything you read?

I wish some of the older forum posters were still here.... its a quote that has been well documented and known.... They would tell you that indeed Joe Louis said the quote.

HomicideHenry wrote:

lorenzo1791 wrote:Your "source" for the 1951 Louis-Marciano fight is a 2012 article by internet boxing authority Springs Toledo [LOL] in the "sweetscience" blog?

Do you believe everything you read?

I wish some of the older forum posters were still here.... its a quote that has been well documented and known.... They would tell you that indeed Joe Louis said the quote.

Im not compleatly sure but it may have been somewhere in Joe Louis's 1978 autobiography MY LIFE,
When he had attened Rocky Marciano's funeral.

BTW Going into this fight Marciano not only had an obvious height disadvantage
but also a weight disadvantage of 26 pounds( 210 lbs to 184 lbs)
and a nine inch reach disadvantage ( 76 in. to 67 in.)
but also of course a Professional boxing record experience disadvantage.

BTW This song would have been on the R&B charts when this fight happened in 1951.
Widely considered to be the first Rock &Roll song.
Rocket 88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

Louis vs Marciano
Part One
(originally aired live Friday.Oct.26.1951
10 pm EST on NBC-TV and radio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVHNlm9MHPM

Part Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbl1ly8vyrE

Part Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMBfW1rkc6U

aired live Friday.Oct.26. 10 pm EST on NBC-TV and radio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bmvHeqzXhA

Louis was a better boxer and better puncher, but fell way off in the 40's...

It was his lifestyle... Women, booze, and nightlife destroyed him... That's why Charles beat the crap out of him -- never mind Marciano.

Prime for prime this isn't even a contest... Louis was a more inept and deteriorated old boxer than Ali was.