Rocky Marciano: A Life Story

An excerpt from this award-winning national TV special about the legendary and beloved undefeated heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano.

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Sports

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• Rocky
• Marciano
• Boxing
• heavyweight
• champions
• Italian-American

[chunkyscotty]

People insult Rocky's opponents, and sure, a few were over the hill. But the fact is he fought everyone there was to fight in the '50's and no champion can do more than that

[beatlejim64]

Marciano was the best conditioned fighter who ever lived...he was a force...he broke bones and blood vessels..he hurt you no matter where he hit you...great heart...great power...great chin...great stamina...he would just wear you down...had no concept of pain and had no concept of losing...feared no man...he just kept on coming....champ from 1952-1956...49-0...43 KO's..put him in the ring with any fighter...

[elijahrules2]

Ali was the greatest of all time he had the best chin r u forgetting the iron chin he has he annihlated sonny liston twice beat george foreman won the champion when he had signs of parkinsions dont compare any one to ali he was invincble in his prime he would rope a dope marciano r u forgetting foreman and liston possisbley hit harder den rocky listen rocky louis demspey jack johnson sulvian baer were all great fighters but none would comptete with the great ali no body touched dominated the sp

[Morel2910]

wery wery good fighting  i'm Poland

[GildyGury]

If he took on real heavy bob baker,he is champ 9/23/52-1/2/57. Floyd is still 21. To this day remains youngest lineal champ. Thats what counts!today wladimir has all the belts but vitali is true champ!

[thechamp2585]

@chunkyscotty Rocky dealt with what Vlad and Vitali deal with today. A lack of equally talented Heavyweight contenders. Although David Haye could change that. We'll see.

[jimmyd10100]

marciano like dempsey and roberto duran had the killer instinct. he was humble and he fought with a will and determination to break you down with a on slaught of continual punching. he fought by getting low and using his leverage for power. strong legs and power. he would have destroyed mike tyson, floyd patterson, joe frazier, and even jack dempsey-one of my favorites. a true champion!

[haymaker1995]

To Torontotool What the hell has ur country ever done besides bitch and moan about America, all y'all have is a big ass waterfall over there

[77turtlewax]

Rip where's are next italian heavyweight champion

[Truly1Tom]

He was everything that was wrong for a boxer to be. He wasn't graceful, or big, or very fast. He was a wrecking machine on two tree trunk legs. IF anyone wants to know where is power came from, they should study the science of kinesiology, the art of human movement. The feet and legs are the foundation. NO one, worked harder than he did before or since. In the second fight with Roland LaStarza he broke his arms; to prove a point, about the first fight. It was said that they'd given him the win.

[Truly1Tom]

He was everything that was wrong for a boxer to be. He wasn't graceful, or big, or very fast. He was a wrecking machine on two tree trunk legs. IF anyone wants to know where is power came from, they should study the science of kinesiology, the art of human movement. The feet and legs are the foundation. NO one, worked harder than he did before or since. In the second fight with Roland Lastarza he broke his arms; to prove a point, about the first fight. It was said that they'd given him the win.

[BidwellRunner]

@capablemachine

You should look up more about Rocky he only fought the best at his time and defeated everybody who challenged him. It wasn't about a record for him he truly believed in giving everyone he felt deserved a shot at the title a chance to beat him and he never turned down a fight against a high ranking opponent while he held the title. He has such an impressive record by the pure fact that no one that lived in his era could beat him.