yup, only Ali in that division really compared for punch output for a heavyweight champ. Rocky was special, it ticks me off when people dismiss him like I used to do before I studied him. Wouldn't beat everyone in history but he was still unique in his approach because he knew he had limits.
probably did, it's a neverending argument, bu today, with youtube, the old excuses that I had, that we rarely saw footage of those older guys, is gone and people still don't spend the time to check things out. That's just on the guy with the opinion. But, it happens in music too, people saying, "so and so is overrated and I really don't like their music" I usually think that they just never really listened and that at the point of forming an opinion, it was too late for them to change it.
Personally, that doesn't matter or make him not very special to me. He would train six months for his fights, fantatically and it showed. There is a certain mystique about him that no other heavyweight has just because of his discipline. No one got more out of what they had.
Me either, too many other great fighters across so many divisions but maybe top 100. I don't know, I'd have to think about it and who he could beat or lose to isn't what made him beloved and unique.
