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On Sept. 23, 1952, at 43 seconds of the 13th round with an atomic right to the jaw, Rocky Marciano knocked out reigning heavyweight champ, Jersey Joe Walcott, to claim the World Heavyweight title ...
The bell would ring, he stopped. The bell would ring again, he'd be right back on you," said George Foreman about Rocky Marciano on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Rocky Marciano had two ...
Marchegiano’s fighting name was Rocky Marciano and until Saturday night he held one of sport’s finest records, having retired as world heavyweight champion after 49 fights without suffering a ...
Corrections/clarifications: A previous version of this story included inaccurate information about the cause of death for Rocky Marciano Sr. Rocky Marciano Jr. said ...
If he had not boarded that airplane in 1969, the plane that crashed in Iowa ending his life the day before his 46th birthday, Rocky Marciano would be sitting around today swapping fight stories ...
Fifty years ago Saturday, Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Iowa. It was the day before his 46th birthday, and the news of his death came as a shock to everyone, especially those who knew ...
"Rocky Marciano is great, but Mike Tyson would have run him over like a train to a flock of sheep," Rogan said. "It's a different world. Rocky, at his maximum weight, weighed 192 pounds ...
LAS VEGAS — After scoring a technical knockout against Conor McGregor on Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather resisted taking jabs at critics who questioned the historical value of his victory at T ...
BROCKTON — For a "wax museum" school project, 9-year-old Zelly Perez studied hometown hero Rocky Marciano. She even played him in class, complete with an embroidered boxing robe her mom got on ...