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Crease wrote:

APerno wrote:Ring Magazine Ratings: Heavyweights, December 1953

World Champion: Rocky Marciano
1. Roland La Starza
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Nino Valdes
4. Dan Bucceroni
5. Heinz Neuhaus
6. Don Cockell
7. Earl Walls
8. Tommy Harrison
9. Coley Wallace
10. Harry Matthews

Firstly, I would say that this list is misleading.

To post up a top 10 of a single month (not even a year) and try to use it as some sort of instrument to devalue one of the greatest Heavyweight Champions in history is unreasonable, when compared to others ways of measuring his achievements.

It was not my intent to be misleading; your point is not unreasonable so I took a look at 1952-1954, here is the problem . . . whether 'one month' or 'three years' the names/competition pretty much stayed the same.

1952 Rocky Marciano, Champion
1. Jersey Joe Walcott
2. Rex Layne
3. Ezzard Charles
4. Bob Dunlap
5. Clarence Henry
6. Johnny Williams
7. Roland LaStarza
8. Heinz Neuhaus
9. Karel Sys
10. Jimmy Bivins

1953 Rocky Marciano, Champion
1. Nino Valdes
2. Ezzard Charles
3. Dan Bucceroni
4. Roland LaStarza
5. Earl Walls
6. Don Cockell
7. Clarence Henry
8. Tommy Harrison
9. Bob Satterfield
10. Coley Wallace

1954 Rocky Marciano, Champion
1. Nino Valdes
2. Don Cockell
3. Ezzard Charles
4. Bob Baker
5. Earl Walls
6. Heinz Neuhaus
7. Rex Layne
8. Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson
9. Charley Norkus
10. Jimmy Slade

I think there may have also been another war going on at the time too.(The Korean War).

He beat everyone he needed to in his era, retired undefeated, to this day is still an unbroken record, came back in fights with his nose hanging off and still won! showing great character and resilience proving his worth as a true champion, Rocky was a great champion of his day, this all you can ask of anybody.