49 wins, 43 knockouts, 0 defeats. Rocky Marciano, a hero to all those who are told they can't.

Rocky was talking about Ali at that point in time, which was 1966. At the time, Ali was clearly a great fighter, which Marciano agreed with, but hadn't really proved himself as someone who could punch or take a punch. Ali proved that later on, in the 70s. I'm sure if Marciano had survived and you asked him the same question in 1976, he would have agreed that Ali was a complete fighter and arguably the best of all time. Marciano wasn't disrespecting Ali, he just didn't have a lot to judge him on. And many people thought the Liston fights were fixed.

It's so wild hearing him praise Ali. When Ali says the same of him. Mike Tyson also idolized Rocky. Marciano is beyond a legend.

Look how humble Rocky is,look at his eyes he was very serious about analyzing ali without any bias

So intelligent for being such a mauler/ brauler.

R.I.P Marciano, passed away too early

Marciano was a honorable man and would never disrespect anyone, just a stand up guy, and one hell of a hitter in boxing standards. "Goat" period.

If you ever watched Marciano fight you would never, ever in life expect him to be such an insightful and articulate man. A delight listening to him.

Impressive response. I admire the respect in his response, as that of Mr. Ali when talking about Mr. Marciano. Classy, Professional and Humble. 👏👍

You got to respect Marciano.

Such an intelligent honourable guy Marciano was

The Liston fight was a question mark…

The way Rocky and Ali talk about each other having never met in the ring is inspiring.

Today we miss people like you, rocky ❤

Now we know that Ali's chin was phenomenal. Fought and beat the biggest punchers including Foreman, Shavers and Lyle. He couldn't get away in his 2nd coming, but took punches and still beat the biggest punchers, none who could put him down. So now we know how great he was.

Marciano was so well outspoken

Marciano was smart in and out of the ring. An excellent businessman.

It turns out that Ali did get caught on the chin and took it rather well too. Nobody knocked him out after all. 🤔 So I reckon Mr Marciano would have been even more impressed 👍 Two great champions ✨💫🌈🥇🏆

Ali went on to prove he could take a punch like no other Years past Ali's best Ernie Shavers landed dozens of clean shots

Rocky Marciano was by far the most dangerous man ever in the ring, even more dangerous than Tyson! He punched his opponents out the ring and was never beaten. 49:0 and something like 43 knockouts. The greatest, no one talks about him enough!

Damn it, I wish he was still around so I could meet him! He is my all time favorite boxer simply because if someone like him with his body type could accomplish what he accomplished, then anyone has a chance! Such an inspiring man!

What an amazing guy. Never heard him talk before

He was right back then, then Ali proved he's the best ever.

Rocky was a outstanding fighter and he is a legend and so is Ali.:)

Marciano told facts. I never felt like the Liston fights were without suspicion.

Cooper actually knocked down Ali with a hard left! Wich he recoverd from and won.

Rocky, the greatest fighter of all time. Ali, the greatest boxer of all time.

A moment of silence please, for "Mr. Undefeated" "Rocky" Marciano. R.I.P.......

Rocky Marciano, who was known for taking beatings but unstoppable, was rating Muhammad Ali on his chin. It’s hard when he avoided getting hit.😇

MISS U. ROCKY U ARE MY FAVORITE ATHELETE OF ALL TIME WISH I COULD HAVE MET YOU 😢😊

Marchiano was a total class act. Very honourable guy.

Rocky and Ali became friends and had a lot of respect for each other

A very honest assessment of Ali during this stage of his career, we know now that he would go on to become one of the greatest Hw in history.

Said by a true badass.

EXACTLY !!! ROCKY M. G.O.A.T

Rocky said it just like it is his name will live on forever RIP🌹 Champ 👑🥊👊🏻

And Ali proved he could take a punch so so so so many brutal punches Mike Tyson summed up Ali perfectly. "For an opponent in the ring to beat him you had to damn near kill Ali because Ali was willing to die in the ring".

He was so righteous 💯

I love You Rocky You and Sonny are the best You guys have baaaalllls to get punch and you and Sonny are warriors Ali is a runaway boy

The "REAL" Rocky...... not some hollywood movie-generated fable. R. I. P. Rocky Marciano MR. 49 & 0 The greatest heavyweight champion in organized boxing history.

This is the art of boxing... hit without getting hit... yes a chin is important.. but you cant knock someone out if you cant hit them

Rocky is the toughest boxer I've ever seen.

He had no idea Ali was supreme against liston, the way he moved was incredible

We need more articulate speakers like this. Out of all to be appreciated from older times, I think the way people talk, is high on my list.

He destroyed, dismantled, and humiliated Liston in their first fight. Man quit on his stool complaining of a “shoulder injury”

I enjoy Rocky's commentary

No ones Been able to match such Skills in Combat Boxing 🥊🥊

It's crazy how Ali ended up absorbing over 200,000 punches

So well spoken

MOHAMMED ALI WAS GREATEST

My favourite fighter of all time the undefeated Rocky Marciano no orchestrated career here this man fought everyone in front of him unlike todays dodgers like mayweather and AJ 🤯

Cooper knocked him down

Never lost a fight... RIP Rocky.

His jaw was broken and he went up to the end of the fight . He is the greatest!

Ali and Rocky. The two best boxers of all time. They where good friends, and had great respect for eachother

Rip Ali

Very well said and spoken.

it was almost a requirement to speak bad about ali when you asked about him those days...champ here giving ali his respect in a way people accept his greatness even though they hate him...

ITALIAN STALLION... G.O.A.T. UNDEFEATED !!!!

Cooper Knocked him down...

“I don’t know how good he is. He’s never been hit on the chin”. That’s how good he is. Not getting hit at that point isn’t luck.

The only man to have respect from all the 5 families rip champ.

A closer glance at Joe Louis 8 fight winning streak which helped him become #1 ranked contender before he faced Rocky. Below is the (6) (SIX) boxers Louis beat: 196 lb Cesar Brian -- Decision -- Brian never beat anyone noteworthy. He had abysmal 36% KO's 197 lb Cesar Brian -- Decision AGAIN -- Why Twice? 187 lb Omelio Agramonte -- Decision -- I watched entire fight and Joe's combinations were non-existent. Agramonte had low-power 45% KOs. The announcer said Louis was supposed to fight Charles after the Savold fight but Louis camp ducked him. 188 lb Omelio Agramonte -- Decision AGAIN -- Why Twice? 191 lb Freddie Beshore -- KO 28-10-1 Freddie had featherfisted 24% KO's 194 lb Andy Walker -- TKO 17-8-7 B-level Andy was powderpuffer with 18% KO's 179 lb Jimmy Bivens -- Decision - 5' 9" light heavyweight Jimmy had 25 losses and was KOd 5 times. He also had an abysmal 27% KO's 190 lb Lee Savold -- KO -- Savold lost 44 fights and was KOd 12 times. Even the announcer said Joe Louis reflexes are but a memory. These two should have been retired. They just pushed Louis through towards Marciano so everyone could fill their pockets with money. Talk about bum-of-the-month-club, WOW. Notice the 5 decisions. A prime 24 year old (1938) speedy combination puncher Joe Louis would have easily accumulated 8 knockouts against those powder-puffers. It was obviously a predetermined carefully hand-picked set-up. So Joe comes outta retirement and takes the worst beating of his career from a light heavyweight (Charles) then he fights 6 stiffs and becomes #1 ranked contender smh. Joe looked like he was wadding through mud when he fought Rocky. Boxing-elites Italian-mafioso and IRS really needed Joe to be ranked #1 inorder to get their Louis vs Marciano $$-SHOW-$$. The entire eastern seaboard was ruled by Italians. The only loyalty the Italian-mob-had was-to-money. Hey they even took 50% of Marciano's earnings and all ticket sales, all in all $2 Million. $2 Million in 1955 is equivalent to $21 Million today. Norris Carbo Weill had complete control over Rocky. That's why he Quit. The Louis camp negotiated a deal with the IRS under which he would come out of retirement, with all his net proceeds going to the IRS. After boxing Joe ended up in the pro wrestling circuit and they still took his money. But that gig finished when Cowboy Rocky Lee lunged onto him with both feet, his boots colliding with Louis' torso. The crash cracked three of his ribs. It left him with a cardiac contusion and officially ended his stint as a wrestler. Children used to send him one dollar in the mail. In his biography he said a child walked up and handed him a dime. When Joe was broken physically and mentally the IRS finally stopped collecting. He lived with friends until he died.

Unfortunately Rocky didn’t live long enough to see Ali’s fights in the 1970’s, he took quiet a lot of punches and still won, by the end of his career he had taken 200,000 blows to the head! Truly the Greatest of all time 🦅

I never heard him speak before, I think he's well spoken, I hadn't expected that seeing him in the ring

Rocky…A class act💪🏻👍🏻

I love Rocky, but by this time Ali had already been dropped by Henry Cooper in they're first fight, and the first Liston fight wasn't exactly a walk in the park. But still, respect to the champion for his opinion

Cooper almost knocked him out

I love that old timely, east coast, accent.

To Ali's defense, Henry Cooper did hit him good once for sure. Cooper got him with one of the cleanest left hooks he ever got hit with in his entire career.

Cooper nearly put him asleep & he had one of the hardest punches in boxing and clay got up and won even if there was controversy about the glove he showed he had a chin

Cooper nearly knocked him out though? + that first Liston fight was a great performance

Marciano was such a g

Wow... At this point Ali was pretty young into his what would become a legendary boxing career. Clearly greats recognize greats.

Ali the greatest boxer bar none. Iron chin Iron will No better footwork No better eye Hands like flyweights though heavyweight Brain like a scholar Text book fighter (rather rewrote the text) The sweetest science of boxing ever presented by man.

He left the boxing game with all his marbles.

Rocky was a gentleman!🤭🤣👍♥️

Henry Cooper Dropped him with a left hook Cooper was an amazing boxer great in close fight with a thunderous left hook tight powerful combinations utilizing body head combos using his short arms to his advantage

I think this not 1966 Muhammad Ali changed his name in 1965

one of the greatest the real rocky, he had the respect of Muhammad Ali, don't sleep on the champ

Wow first time I listen to Rocky and he was spot on! What a smart man he was. And he saw it all back then.

Silly man , you can’t hit him on the chin! That’s how good he was

"His mama named him Clay, he always gonna be Clay to me"

Some people fail to realize not getting hit is a skill and a part of any combat sport. And if you do get hit try not take the full shot. He acted like that was a fault.

Love Muhammad. Always my favorite. Ali had one of the best jaws ever.

They say that Marciano punches hot with the same force as a armor piercing bullet! Think about that for one minute. Imagine the force of getting hit even on the arms as he often did to his opponents to lower their defenses. And then it was good night! Hands down the best and greatest heavyweight champion of all time. He kept coming after you for 15 rounds...relentless and the thought of fighting someone with the power and conditioning this man had was downright scary!

JOURNEYMAN JERSEY JOE WALCOTT EXPOSED There are few heavyweight champions in the history of boxing that are better known for their losses than their wins. Jersey Joe Walcott's high profile losses is what elevated his status and built up his credentials, not his wins. During his peak championship years, Walcott scored 7 wins with 5 KO's. Only one of those KO's came against a ranked fighter, that being Ezzard Charles. During this time Walcott also lost 7 times and suffered 10 count KO's 3 times and a 9 count once. In total fights during this time Walcott's record was 7-7. In title fights he went 2-6 with 1 KO win and 3 KO losses. He fought 3 different men in his 8 title fights, was defeated by each of them twice, KO'd by two of them and only defeated one of them. In his overall career, Walcott had a 49-20-1 record and was KO'd 6 times (BoxRec). Based on these less than impressive stats it is difficult to consider him anymore than a good Journeyman. Walcott scored 32 KO's in 70 fights. 8 of them came against fighters who were winless. The only two ranked fighters Walcott ever KO'd was an off the floor 10th round win over Curtis Sheppard and the lightning in the bottle KO of Ezzard Charles. Walcott is a prime example of boxing historians rating a fighter higher than he deserves based on impressive losses. Walcott was winless in all 4 of his fights vs Louis/Marciano and was KO'd 3 times. The fact that Walcott was granted 6 title attempts in a 6 year span speaks volumes about how weak the heavyweight division must have been at this time. Five of these title opportunities came immediately after a Walcott loss. Had Walcott been fighting in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, there is no way he would have been granted this many opportunities after losing so many title attempts. Walcott should at best be remembered not as a great heavyweight champion, but a good Journeyman.

Remember, to his credit, he was talking about Ali during htis time. This wasn't quite yet the Ali we all knew and loved as the greatest.

Seeing Ali go ultra instinct never gets old

I distinctly saw Cooper hit him square on his jaw to knock him down , only for the bell to rescue Ali . But for that crazy knockdown rule Ali might well have been counted out and our Enery Would have been the true champ

But in the 70s we found out just how tough ali was he could take a punch never was knocked out cold. Took some of the hardest punches from fraizer foreman norton shavers. Even larry holmes couldn't floor him. Ali hands down had the best chin of all time

ROCK MARCIANO O MELHOR DE TODOS.

Fair

Ali would have knocked Marciano out inside of 6 rounds

You see. Marciano was brilliant. He understood the sport and the athletes. Rocky really was an amazing champion.

How many losses did the BEST Heavyweight Champions of All Time have: Lewis 2,, Holmes 6,, Ali 5,, Vitali 2,, Foreman 5,, Tyson 6,, Wladimir 5,, Bowe 1,, Liston 4,, Louis 3,, Holyfield 10,, Frazier 4,, Norton 7,, Tunney 1,, Dempsey 6,, Jack Johnson 11....Who's missing? Oh, little Marciano is missing. Why? "SHOW ME A HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION WITHOUT A LOSS AND I'LL SHOW YOU A FIGHTER THAT FOUGHT A LOT OF NOBODIES" -- Lennox Lewis Cruiserweight Journeyman Jersey Joe Walcott 49W 20L 39-Year Old Club Fighter. Joe Louis 66W 3L Over The Hill Came Back From The Dead Before Count Dracula Of Transylvania Did. Middleweight-Lightheavyweight-Lightcruiserweight-Ezzard Charles 95W 25L Club Fighter With More Beatings Than Curley of The Three Stooges. Welterweight-Middleweight-Lightheavyweight-Lightcruiserweight-Archie Moore 186W 23L 41-Year Old Grandfather was Factually Born in 1913. Archie was Already Fightin Professionally When tiny Rocky was Only 12-Years Old!!! Pick a Decade.. 60s,, 70s,, 80s,, 90s,, 2000s? He would have been destroyed in all of them! Little Marciano only steered towards zombies and mediocre opposition at best.. "Fight No One and Quit While You Are Ahead"

He and Ali had a great respect for each other. Rocky praised Ali's excellent agility and ability to slip punches like they were nothing and Ali praised Marciano's unwavering toughness and heart. If you think about it from a very technical stand point neither of them were exceptional in the ways we usually consider great fighters nowadays but they still were two of the greatest. Rocky Marciano was not a particularly imposing heavyweight. He was small, his footwork left much to be desired (two left feet being his very own description of it), he was not particularly hard to hit, and his punch while impressive for his size was not so devastating as to carry his entire career. However he had a fight in his soul like few other could ever even be roughly compared to. The only other two men that come to mind are probably Smokin' Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali himself. Muhammad Ali similarly did not have any particularly outstanding qualities save for his speed. His punches were not particularly hard nor individually dangerous, he was far from an immovable wall that nobody could knock down, his defense was not particularly amazing either as Mike Tyson described "his defense was not great but his speed was his defense". And yet with what surely was a rather subpar toolset for a heavyweight fighter he still became one of if not the greatest heavyweights to ever lace up the gloves because just like Marciano he was willing to die in that ring before he gave up.

What’s interesting about this observation is later on one of Ali’s biggest strengths was his chin, nobody can deny he fought some of the biggest punchers in heavyweight history, Frazier, Forman,Lyle, and maybe the biggest of all Shavers,

Ever wonder why little Rocky Marciano is always ranked so high? Because his ranking is determined by modern computer metric algorithms. Problem is this man-made program was coded to exclude "WEIGHT" from the equation. That's why tiny-165 pound 'Heavyweight' champion Bob Fitzsimmons from the 1800s is ranked ahead of giant Riddick Bowe. How's it possible 185 pound Marciano ranks higher than Fury Holmes Lewis Vitali Wladimir Foreman Bowe Tyson etcetera? Well now we all know why!!! Even though Heavyweight champions ranged from 165 (Fitzsimmons) to 328 (Valuev) pounds, ranking bodies still exclude "WEIGHT" from their metric, even though they 'Still Acknowledge Seventeen (17) Different "WEIGHT" Classes', imagine that. "AGE" is another code omitted from the metric. The algorithms only see Marciano fought 4 Hall of Famers and went 49-0, it doesn't see Moore was 41 years "old" and "light" heavyweight moonlighting at Heavyweight. That's why ALL Heavyweight rankings should be looked upon with a grain of salt. Unfortunately Rocky fanboys cling to his ranking as if it were life and death.

If you watch his interview show you can see what a Beautiful Man....what a GIANT he is!