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Originally Posted by sushijin
When you want to spew out statistics such as these, it would help your argument if there was accuracy to back it up. i knew it was fishy tho, because your average age number you came up with was pretty close to the age of his oldest opponents during his championship reign. Well, of course he fought some younger guys during this period too, so I figured your stats were made up and full of shit. And I was right. Taking into account Rocky's championship period, as TKD had supposedly done, he went 7-0. The average age for the opponents in those fights was 33.7. We can round that number up to 34. There may be a deviation of +.5 year because I wasn't taking into acount the month of birth, so I'm sure maybe one or two of the fighters were a year older than I tallied. It would still keep the overall at 34.something tho. But there you have it. 34 was the average, and that's perhaps a bit past a HW fighter's prime back then, but not by much. You had it at 39, rounding up.... You were just shooting out fake stats to support your contention. That might work on the HW forum, but guys here will call you on miscalculations.
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Sushin......read my post again....I said "something like" and was going strictly off of memory.....I don't google or Wikepedia everything everytime I post........If you want to get down to brass tacks and quarrel about numbers we can take other things into account.....like Archie Moore's disputed birthdate which folks claim was closer to 1910- 1911 than the stated 1913.........That puts the number even higher......But who gives a shit ! (other than you obviously)
Moore.....Walcott....Louis.....and Charles were past their primes when they ran into the Rock. LaStarza was the only fighter that one could consider in his prime.....Cockell ? Well......most folks believe that Don shouldn't have even been in the same building with Rocky to say nothing of the same ring.......
Squash those facts into your computer and hit enter......it all comes out the same........Rocky caught a patch of over the hill fighters and got past them all (although Charles gave him something of a scare or two).....Put Rocky's ass in the 1960-1970's era and no one would even remember his name today......as much as it pains me to say it....