Topic: Rocky Marciano
One will argue that Rocky Marciano was one of the greatest heavyweights of all time and the fact that he holds the record for most fights undefeated (49) by any retired fighter proves that. On his way through the ranks he would ...
If good looks were how a fighter would win titles and have their career judged, sadly for Rocky Marciano his career would have been over before it'd have started, with a face only a mother (a blind one at that) could ...
That man is 'the rock' Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight in the history of the sport to retire an undefeated and undisputed champion with a perfect record of 49-0, many of which came by way of his powerful hooks. This of course ...
In a sport where weight is such an issue to gain an advantage, boxing like other combat sports deems weight divisions (or classes) to be the fairest way to keep fighters at a similar weight. The division was originally formed in the ...
Ji-Won Kim isn't a very well known boxer, even amongst the sports biggest fans most have never heard of the Korean, though the man, who is currently, achieved one of the rarest acts in professional boxing and retired ad an unbeaten ...
Occasionally you hear someone say, this is the best time to be alive. For example, the most dominate baseball player of all-time is without question Babe Ruth. If Ruth had played last season (2008) and swatted 14 percent of all homers hit ...
Seen as the Ring Magazine fight of the year for 1954 Rocky Marciano versus?Ezzard?Charles II would be a rather pointless fight that almost ended the undefeated 46 fight streak that Marciano had going at the time. As Charles attempted to ...
Known as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, Rocky Marciano spent the majority of his world heavyweight title reign fighting two men, Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott. But there is a another name there, a name all too often ...
To look at Joe Calzaghe and Rocky Marciano you'd see two completely different boxers. Marciano went 37 fights over four years before he took on past his prime former champion Joe Louis. Marciano would go on to use that win to ...
Had he lived he would have celebrated his 87th birthday this Wednesday. If he had not boarded that airplane in 1969, the plane that crashed in Iowa...
