{"id":53068,"date":"2015-06-07T03:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068"},"modified":"2015-06-07T03:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T08:04:23","slug":"rocky-marciano-floyd-mayweather-jr-stop-with-the-undefeated-record-debate-already-there-is-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Marciano &#038; Floyd Mayweather, JR: Stop with the Undefeated Record Debate Already \u2013 There Is NONE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1029\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1029\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1029_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"81856b7579\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1029\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you agree that you cannot compare Floyd Mayweather, JR. if he goes undefeated  to Rocky Marciano's undefeated record?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1029-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2837\" name=\"poll_1029\" value=\"2837\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2837\">Yes, you can compare their records should Floyd break Rocky's undefeated record!<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2838\" name=\"poll_1029\" value=\"2838\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2838\">No, you cannot compare their records!<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1029);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1029); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1029-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49025 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Rocky-M.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky M\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the last two years, the discussion has raged on that if Floyd Mayweather, JR., 48-0, 26 KO\u2019s goes to 49-0, he ties Rocky Marciano\u2019s, 49-0, 43 KO\u2019s undefeated record as a champion and of course, if he goes to 50-0, he breaks it. However, Mayweather, JR. has been a multiple division champion and Marciano, a one division champion. They both ruled boxing in their respective eras, but that is where anything compared should end. You cannot say if Mayweather, JR. goes undefeated and retires, he breaks a Heavyweight Champion\u2019s record.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over the years since Marciano retired as the Heavyweight Champion, Larry Holmes would be the only other Heavyweight Champion to even come close to breaking Rocky\u2019s record when he was <a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53068 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-52702 size-full\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Floyd-M-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Floyd M 2015\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>48-0, but lost in his 49th fight, to Michael Spinks in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Floyd will go in the record books and his record may not ever be broken as it appears Rocky\u2019s may not either. However, to compare a lower weight fighter to the Heavyweight division is just ridiculous for record purposes. End of Story\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt For the last two years, the discussion has raged on that if Floyd Mayweather, JR., 48-0, 26 KO\u2019s goes to 49-0, he ties Rocky Marciano\u2019s, 49-0, 43 KO\u2019s undefeated record as a champion and of course, if he goes to 50-0, he breaks it. However, Mayweather, JR. has been a multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10928],"tags":[12965,12964],"class_list":["post-53068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","category-columns-by-bad-brad-berkwitt","tag-jr-stop-with-the-undefeated-record-debate-already-there-is-none","tag-rocky-marciano-floyd-mayweather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53068"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}