I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you never hear about Rocky anywhere, no tribute, no praise for this great man, even though he is the only UNDEFEATED heavy weight boxing champ of all time, today's society will not acknowledge him, but WE'RE the prejudiced ones.
Rocky is a legend in Brockton & his late nephew, Peter Marciano Jr is also a legend in Football as a wide receiver & safety & a kickoff & punt returner at Brockton H.S., where he led them to 2 Division I Championship Titles and the Brockton High School was ranked as the 8th greatest High School Team by Parade in 1985. Peter went on to Iowa University, where he had a full athletic scholarship & set records in Kick-off & punt returns & if not for knee injuries he would've gone on to play Professional Football in the NFL.
Every boxer can be beat....but Rocky was never beat - give him credit...he didn't even start fighting until he was mid20s so he gave up so much experience to virtually EVERY fighter he beat. RIP Rocky...legend..savage..
just a few words that really pisses me off, they talk about other fighters that became champions, but you almost never hear them say anything about rocky marciano. these other fighters all had losses, none had a perfect record like rocky, they gave them ratings on who was the first best, second, and so on,but they have the nerve to rate rocky almost last. mohamad ali was a very good fighter, perhaps one of the best, but give rocky his due with all due respect. rocky we all loved you, may you rest in peace. best regards Louie Vaccaro, Las Vegas.
A interesting fact about Marciano, in thirteen of his forty nine fights, thirteen challengers careers were ended No other heavyweight fighter can make this claim
Indeed! It's ironic that Coach Columbo coached Rocky's late nephew Peter Marciano Jr who was one of the best football players to come out of Brockton High School. Peter went on to Iowa University on a full athletic scholarship, where he set records in kick-off & punt returns. If not for knee injuries, Peter would've went on to play Professiona Football.
Rockys family are from the same part of Italy as my family, Marciano was a legend he was the greatest HW ever and he was top 5 P4P to, so well conditioned a real champion, and gayweather s record don't come close he should not be mentioned in the same breath as gayweather
Rocky belongs to the ages, Tyson and Klitschko have both said, they will not comment on champions from other ages or whether they could beat them, they just respect their legacies and their time.
toughness and conditioning are hard to measure...he had both to extreme levels to overcompensate for any deficiencies...man could go 20 rounds! nuff said...
He trained like a gladiator and fought like one.....like his life depended on it. Mental and physical conditioning that nobody else had the will to do. The results speak for themselves.
You doubters go to the pros the experts the trainer's that see him fight, they said it's impossible to train to fight Marciano because he hit you all over no sparring partner could mimick what Rocco did, he beat the will out of men and he did it like a true gentleman
Rocky fish , BINGO, I don't know if you caught what I wrote about if Rocky & Ali had fought in the early 50s, but Rocky's 100% unique,relentless, & seemily untireable style of just damage everything till it all comes down is exactly what I meant.
Even if some heavyweight boxer down the road retires undefeated with a higher number, it doesn't undo or beat Rocky's record. He simply joins the elite club of undefeated fighters which right now only has one member: Rocky, whose record will stand forever.
Rocky started in his mid 20's...and everytime someone says he lacked skill or boxing talent...they are making him that much greater when you consider what he accomplished ! We will not see 49-0...50-0 in the heavyweight division in our lifetimes ! Rocky fought who was there...he got out becuz he looked at Joe Louis, had a ton of respect for Joe..but didn't want to end up like Joe Louis did. Rocky, just the way he was...would have found a way to hurt, beat Ali.
Rocky fish ,So true, Floyd Mayweather has ran his way to the same record on paper, RM brutaly fought every step of his way to 49-0 in the ring, but with him it could've been the alley to, take your pick.
Rocky fish ,Also a more then fair amount that really mixed it up with Rocky were ruined after that, he (not intentionally) of course damaged them to where they weren't ever able to perform at top level again. Early 50s ring rules Rocky & Ali? It can safely be said neither man ever faced 1 like the other, Ali never had what it took to actually hurt Rocky,& had they really got into it & Ali won on cuts, I don't believe he'd ever have been the elite genetic freak of a fighter he'd been prior to the fight. On the other hand there's no way he's wearing Rocky down to knock him out,so eventually it's impossible to move & hold his arms up, then Rocky puts him to sleep. What a few do,but so many don't grasp I guess because he wasn't elegant like Ali is that in his way Rocky was just as much of a genetic freak in his particular way . The thing both Rocky & Ali had in common is their heads were always peaking along with the physical aspect. Had Foreman been at the same place mentally when he was young as later, I believe he'd probably been undefeated, if Tyson wasn't a mental mess, same thing.
Discernment Ali struggled with smaller guys like Oscar, Frazier Norton etc, Ali was not a big hitter let alone punching down, Frazier was just as fit but only had a left hook, the rock for me was an awesome volume puncher because each punch hurt
Rocky gets badly underated now by people that are clueless about the sport. The man was a animal. The only way to beat a man with his conditioning, relentlessNess and power was to fight him. Not box him you'd have to fight out of your skin to beat marciano. You ever see how foreman beat Frazier he fought him . You need a guy that can fight with that type of power to beat a Marciano or else a freak like Ali. The klitchkos for example can't fight there boxers plain and simple.
I agree totally, I go on various boxing debates on TH-cam and the amount of boxing fans that knock his great achievements and his legacy in the ring is just so disrespectful of a great unbeaten champ who retired 49-0 43 kos, to me he was a great champ and deserves respect
Chris Evans I agree with you totally sir. He is a true great and deserves respect. I believe alot of the disrespect is racial or else fans that are clueless about the old school. Marciano was a absolute animal and anyone that can't see that are blind or haven't taken the time to sit through a marciano fight.
Boxers beat fighters 99% of the time, if what you said was true why then is it always boxers who wind up being the best, Willie Pep, Ali, Ray Leonard, Ray Robinson and Mayweather. Sluggers always end up getting schooled and thats why its called the sweet science. The man most considered the old school fighter Jack Dempsey was beaten by Gene Tunney, considered the first great modern style boxer. Marciano won in a talent depleted era after the Joe Louis era. Walcott was beating him by a mile til Marciano got a late knock out and his win against Roland La Starza was considered a bad decision and 3 of his title fights were against men most famous for being Light Heavyweights one time vs Archie Moore and 2 times vs Ezzard Charles. Watch his fight against Moore and its incredible the amount of shots he missed with. Marciano was a good champion in a poor era but he's not a great compared to Louis, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield or Lewis.
John Maddin , You make many good points, however In That Era when they didn't stop fights because of a few cuts &or a guy getting out boxed for a min, they generally only stopped (championship) bouts when the guy was to hurt to carry on & RM was never close to that. He often got stronger after the 10th & could have gone full steam for 25rds. He was by far the best conditioned fighter of all time. Again I think you make good points but you don't factor that he in,which is an edge he had over any (especially heavyweight) fighter by light-years.
I can't believe the Cubs turned him down. He would have been one of the best baseball players of all time. There's no sport he wouldn't have excelled in. In his time, he was the greatest athlete in the world.
According to Rocky's younger brother, Peter Marciano: He was always a long-ball hitter with a very weak throwing arm." Marciano was also a slow runner, and all of that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because he became the greatest Heavyweight Boxer from his ERA and he is the only heavyweight boxer to retire undefeated.
@@richardmilliken8705 He had a weak throwing arm? Maybe the brothers had a baseball rivalry. I don´t know. I would think a guy who could throw a punch like that could throw a ball. But I guess it´s two different things.
@@mwbright Peter Marciano was 15 years younger than his brother Rocky, so i doubt there was any sibling rivalry. The fact that Rocky's power was utilized in hitting homeruns makes complete sense, since he had one of the most powerful KO punches in the history of Boxing. And the fact that Marciano had the shortest reach at 67" of any heavyweight champion in history and his handspeed was average at best, then it makes sense that he had a weak thowing arm. During my glory days, when i played baseball at the H.S. & College level, i was 5'11" at 195lb and i had a reach of 78" and i always won the throwing contests at the Jr Olympics and i played centerfield & pitcher, because of my strong throwing arm and my quick footspeed. Most great pitchers have huge hands and long arms with wide shoulders. Rocky had none of those qualities, so it makes complete sense that he had a weak throwing arm. Carlton Fisk is considered one of the GOAT Catchers and he made Marciano look like a little boy. And Rocky was not accurate with his throws from homeplate to 2nd base. Marciano was also a very slow runner. It turned out to be a blessing for Rocky because he is one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all-time. And we are only talking about triple A baseball where the players are paid peanuts. You could make more money working at Walmart.
Indeed! Rocky was smart enough to realize that he had reached his prime in 1955, at the age of 32, and his back had been causing problems for Rocky, in 1954-1955. When he found out that his manager, Al Weill had been screwing Marciano over financially, he decided it was time to retire on top. Rocky made more money in retirement, than he ever did in the ring. And by getting paid in cash under-the-table, he avoided Uncle Sam's greedy hands.
He was in different era they would not let boxers fight this way anymore how many fighters get knocked out of ring now it's what they did to football the defense has their hands tied you will never see another fighter like Rocky again.
Tyson was destroying & knocking out most of his opponents until Buster Douglas beat an out-of-shape & drug addicted Tyson. And the fight between Hagler & Hearns was a lot more brutal than any of Marciano's fights. That was the GOAT 1st rounds of Boxing.
He was a great fighter he did not have great fighters to fight they were all over hill that's not his fault Moore Charles Lewis they were there late thirty or early 40s
Tiger Ted was my trainer in Norwalk Ct he was a defensive genius and had the style to give Rocky trouble taught us to avoid being hit before showing us how to throw a punch at the greater Norwalk boxing association. I asked who the best fighter he faced was and his reply was Marciano , Joe Louis and Archie Moore in that order . He said the decisions could have gone either way but he didn’t feel he did enough to beat rocky and earn the fights . That being said he was proud of being the only man to fight Rocky and not get knocked in the 2nd match and was a true gentleman and fantastic trainer R.I.P. Ted you were a great man
@Studentofsweetscience That would be cool to see I’m just saying what Ted said to me basically he felt he won the first and second fights but could have been more aggressive to leave no doubt I would love to see the video link as I loved Ted as a fighter and a person he was a good man .
50-0....floyd mayweather. no 1. But not Heavyweight......a points boxer. no cte......billionaire.......but yes a big mouth braggart....still 50-0 is a feat. gotta love him.
Peter the rocks brother, had a son who recently over dosedan on Heroin. Too bad. Rocky weighed 184 when winning title. He would of been a small cruiserweight! Never mind a Heavy. Matter of fact.WALCOTT had him down at 38...ARCHI MOORE had him down at 43! An over blown light heavy. U know who would of knocked him out and he only weighed 198...Jerry Quarry, that's right. Quarry knocked out the biggest puncher in history out in 1 rIund. EARNIE Shavers. AND that was when Shavers was 29...in his prime 6 yrs before he had Holmes down. Quarry had a great chin, he got cut in big fughts. And his ability to absorb tremendous punches shortened his career. He had Patterson down 4 times in 2 fughts.and Quarry got a draw which was a robbery and a win . And this was by age 23! His particular prime was age 22 to 28. He broke his hand in Sgavers fight. Ref should if stopped it sooner....about 12 punches into the 25 Shavers didn't respond too! And he beat Lyle same yr when Lyle was undeafeated! Quarry never was as good again. Broken hand, layoff and it was downhill from there. But bsck to Marciano...Look at first Quarry Frazier fight. Quarry stood toe to toe, and had Frazier hurt afew times. And Frazier had 29 lbs on Marciano. No Quarry woULD OF KNOCKED Rock into the cheap seats!!
@@jamescampione8531 but Marciano was there to be hit..quarry both fights with Frazier he stood toe to toe. Marciano like I said to small. Hell Cockell who was a middleweight gave him problems. He was a fat heavyweight.No if Jerry bombed out a 210 Shavets... a 185 Marciano who only punched great with his right when Wusrry banged with both hands would of got him out of there.
Walcott, Charles, Moore, & Louis were all past their primes, but other than Louis(who was washed-up in 1951 at 37.)they all fought great fights against Marciano. Ezzard was only 2 years older than Rocky & his first fight against Marciano was very close and Walcott had dominated for 12 rounds before Marciano knocked him out in the 13th round. Both of those fighters would've had no problems beating Shavers or Quarry. Shavers was not a good Boxer from any stretch of the imagination. With modern training, nutrition, and supplements, Rocky would've been fighting around 205lb during the 70s & he would've been stronger & faster. Rocky was a lot harder to hit than most people realize. Jerry lacked the KO punching power compared to Marciano and Shavers was easy to hit and Rocky would've had no problems knocking out Shavers with 1 punch. Rocky's nephew, Peter Marciano Jr was one of the GOAT High School Footballs to come out of Brockton. Peter went on to Iowa University on a full athletic scholarship, and he broke Kick-off & Punt return records, and if not for severe knee & back injuries, he would've went on to the NFL to play Professional Football. Peter was only 5'7" at 175lb, but he could run the 40 in 4.45 seconds and bench-press over 400lb. He was also ranked as one of the top 100 handball players in the world, after he hung up his football cleats.
Marciano was a good fighter but lets be realistic he had his 6 title fights in a short period of which there was little in the way of talent and all of his title opponents were near 40 year old men which was ancient in boxing years back in an era before modern sports science and dieting techniques, and on top of that half his title fights were against mostly career light heavyweights in Archie Moore and Ezzard Charles. His bout against Roland La Starza was considered a bad decision and in his first fight against Walcott he was losing badly till he got a late knockdown, the second ended with a quick knock out. Another thing casual's don't know is the sheer amount of punches that Marciano missed with, its a ridiculously high percentage, he was a slugger and its outrageous for any serious fan of boxing to think he'd beat Larry Holmes, the dodgy Nevada State Athletic Authority stopped Holmes from equalling the record but it should be remembered when Holmes fought his 49th fight it was his 20th straight World Title defense and in those fights he fought good names Norton, Weaver, Shavers, Berbick, Spinks, Witherspoon, Williams, Cooney and Bey. I don't count Ali as he was shot and Frazier's son was not half the boxer his father was.
Ezzard Charles is the GOAT Light-Heavyweight Boxer & Holmes lost to the 5th GOAT Light-Heavyweight Boxer Mike Spinks twice. And Holmes beat an old & washed up Ali in 1980. Larry didn't fight Foreman or Frazier, but he did get KO by Mike Tyson. Rocky's 1st fight against LaStarza was a split decision in which the fight was scored as a tie, but because the fight was held in New York, the Boxing Supplemental Rules indicated that if a Boxer knocked his opponent down on the canvas, he would be scored an extra point, and it was that extra point based on NY's Boxing rules that turned a tie fight into a victory for Rocky. The Larry Holmes that fought & lost against Spinks twice, would've lost to Rocky. Now the Larry Holmes that proved his toughness & determination against Norton & Shavers would've beaten Marciano. Rocky may have missed over half of his punches, but considering that he threw between 85-100 punches per round, those punches that landed on his opponents caused a lot of damage. Marciano's KO punch against Walcott in the 13th round of their first Title Fight, was one of the GOAT KO Punches, in the history of Boxing. The reality is that Rocky would've been either a light-heavyweight or cruiser weight Boxing Champion, if he was fighting today. The heavyweight boxers were a lot smaller during Marciano's era.
Its not beating the record that would matter, Some one can hold the title and past the 49 mark, its about walking away when on top, and not coming back.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you never hear about Rocky anywhere, no tribute, no praise for this great man, even though he is the only UNDEFEATED heavy weight boxing champ of all time, today's society will not acknowledge him, but WE'RE the prejudiced ones.
I'd love to see a movie made of the great man. They won't make it because he's white.
Ya it's because hes italian ... never will get credit people will always think it was a crooked setup because of it pretty sad actually.
I love the Rock!!!!
Agreed, the times we live in.
Rocky is a legend in Brockton & his late nephew, Peter Marciano Jr is also a legend in Football as a wide receiver & safety & a kickoff & punt returner at Brockton H.S., where he led them to 2 Division I Championship Titles and the Brockton High School was ranked as the 8th greatest High School Team by Parade in 1985. Peter went on to Iowa University, where he had a full athletic scholarship & set records in Kick-off & punt returns & if not for knee injuries he would've gone on to play Professional Football in the NFL.
And still the HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION of the world Rocky Marcino 49n0 R.I.P. Champ.
Every boxer can be beat....but Rocky was never beat - give him credit...he didn't even start fighting until he was mid20s so he gave up so much experience to virtually EVERY fighter he beat.
RIP Rocky...legend..savage..
MEP41376 your just as fucking bad, and just do you know black people were the 1st to have slave's, your both wrong on all levels
Because he retired too soon
just a few words that really pisses me off, they talk about other fighters that became champions, but you almost never hear them say anything about rocky marciano. these other fighters all had losses, none had a perfect record like rocky, they gave them ratings on who was the first best, second, and so on,but they have the nerve to rate rocky almost last. mohamad ali was a very good fighter, perhaps one of the best, but give rocky his due with all due respect. rocky we all loved you, may you rest in peace. best regards Louie Vaccaro, Las Vegas.
@@courtneywhite6848 it still tough to do retired at 32 years old
@@courtneywhite6848 Exactly. He retired in his Prime.
Rocky had the heart of a LION! He was a BEAST. He chose the most difficult way to fight and it took great courage to fight that way. BIG RESPECT
GREAT MAN, GREATER FRIEND, GREATEST FIGHTER. REST IN PEACE DEAREST ROCKY.
A interesting fact about Marciano, in thirteen of his forty nine fights, thirteen challengers careers were ended No other heavyweight fighter can make this claim
A real champ 49-0 never to be again ........The all time real champ or of the ring
Deontay wilder
Floyd may weather 50-0
Bororus Rooroo lost
@Bugs Bunny hacked me nah look at his fight man he's really good really
@@bororusrooroo8010 wilder got knocked out by fury
Rocky is like the 72 Miami Dolphins, completely perfect.
Indeed! The 1972 Miami Dolphins were extremely tough & gritty football players like Marciano was.
ROCKY THE GREATEST
The greatest is Jack Johnson and Ali
Rocky Marciano vs very young sonny liston 1950s;; ;; it could have happened
The Brockton legend, Coach Colombo talking about THE Brockton legend, Rocky Marciano - priceless.
Great man and coach, was a teacher of mine in high school
Indeed! It's ironic that Coach Columbo coached Rocky's late nephew Peter Marciano Jr who was one of the best football players to come out of Brockton High School. Peter went on to Iowa University on a full athletic scholarship, where he set records in kick-off & punt returns. If not for knee injuries, Peter would've went on to play Professiona Football.
Rockys family are from the same part of Italy as my family, Marciano was a legend he was the greatest HW ever and he was top 5 P4P to, so well conditioned a real champion, and gayweather s record don't come close he should not be mentioned in the same breath as gayweather
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Rocky belongs to the ages, Tyson and Klitschko have both said, they will not comment on champions from other ages or whether they could beat them, they just respect their legacies and their time.
Absolutely they all deserve respect..
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Well said
Well said
You don't start boxing pro at 25 and 3 years later knock out Joe Louis for nothing. The man was great.
Good point
Rockys record will haunt the HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION...for all of time.
He was 25 when he had his first professional fight.He started old and every one he fought he knocked out except 6 of his 49 fights
toughness and conditioning are hard to measure...he had both to extreme levels to overcompensate for any deficiencies...man could go 20 rounds! nuff said...
He trained like a gladiator and fought like one.....like his life depended on it. Mental and physical conditioning that nobody else had the will to do. The results speak for themselves.
You doubters go to the pros the experts the trainer's that see him fight, they said it's impossible to train to fight Marciano because he hit you all over no sparring partner could mimick what Rocco did, he beat the will out of men and he did it like a true gentleman
Rocky fish , BINGO, I don't know if you caught what I wrote about if Rocky & Ali had fought in the early 50s, but Rocky's 100% unique,relentless, & seemily untireable style of just damage everything till it all comes down is exactly what I meant.
Archie Moore said fighting Marciano is like fighting an airplane propeller.
Even if some heavyweight boxer down the road retires undefeated with a higher number, it doesn't undo or beat Rocky's record. He simply joins the elite club of undefeated fighters which right now only has one member: Rocky, whose record will stand forever.
Rocky started in his mid 20's...and everytime someone says he lacked skill or boxing talent...they are making him that much greater when you consider what he accomplished ! We will not see 49-0...50-0 in the heavyweight division in our lifetimes ! Rocky fought who was there...he got out becuz he looked at Joe Louis, had a ton of respect for Joe..but didn't want to end up like Joe Louis did. Rocky, just the way he was...would have found a way to hurt, beat Ali.
No I don't think so Ali was too fast
@@courtneywhite6848 we all have views..I respect yours..but if joe Frazier could connect on Ali..you can believe Rocky woulda found Ali's jaw.
No one will ever do it he had wars in the ring a real fighter, not like these bums winning on points
Rocky fish ,So true, Floyd Mayweather has ran his way to the same record on paper, RM brutaly fought every step of his way to 49-0 in the ring, but with him it could've been the alley to, take your pick.
Discernment plus only 3 men survived the rest hit the deck gayweather only had like 23 Kos
Rocky fish ,Also a more then fair amount that really mixed it up with Rocky were ruined after that, he (not intentionally) of course damaged them to where they weren't ever able to perform at top level again.
Early 50s ring rules Rocky & Ali? It can safely be said neither man ever faced 1 like the other, Ali never had what it took to actually hurt Rocky,& had they really got into it & Ali won on cuts, I don't believe he'd ever have been the elite genetic freak of a fighter he'd been prior to the fight. On the other hand there's no way he's wearing Rocky down to knock him out,so eventually it's impossible to move & hold his arms up, then Rocky puts him to sleep.
What a few do,but so many don't grasp I guess because he wasn't elegant like Ali is that in his way Rocky was just as much of a genetic freak in his particular way . The thing both Rocky & Ali had in common is their heads were always peaking along with the physical aspect. Had Foreman been at the same place mentally when he was young as later, I believe he'd probably been undefeated, if Tyson wasn't a mental mess, same thing.
Discernment Ali struggled with smaller guys like Oscar, Frazier Norton etc, Ali was not a big hitter let alone punching down, Frazier was just as fit but only had a left hook, the rock for me was an awesome volume puncher because each punch hurt
100% man
Rocky gets badly underated now by people that are clueless about the sport. The man was a animal. The only way to beat a man with his conditioning, relentlessNess and power was to fight him. Not box him you'd have to fight out of your skin to beat marciano. You ever see how foreman beat Frazier he fought him . You need a guy that can fight with that type of power to beat a Marciano or else a freak like Ali. The klitchkos for example can't fight there boxers plain and simple.
I agree totally, I go on various boxing debates on TH-cam and the amount of boxing fans that knock his great achievements and his legacy in the ring is just so disrespectful of a great unbeaten champ who retired 49-0 43 kos, to me he was a great champ and deserves respect
Chris Evans I agree with you totally sir. He is a true great and deserves respect. I believe alot of the disrespect is racial or else fans that are clueless about the old school. Marciano was a absolute animal and anyone that can't see that are blind or haven't taken the time to sit through a marciano fight.
bruce lee ,You nailed a huge % of the negativity completely!
Boxers beat fighters 99% of the time, if what you said was true why then is it always boxers who wind up being the best, Willie Pep, Ali, Ray Leonard, Ray Robinson and Mayweather. Sluggers always end up getting schooled and thats why its called the sweet science. The man most considered the old school fighter Jack Dempsey was beaten by Gene Tunney, considered the first great modern style boxer. Marciano won in a talent depleted era after the Joe Louis era. Walcott was beating him by a mile til Marciano got a late knock out and his win against Roland La Starza was considered a bad decision and 3 of his title fights were against men most famous for being Light Heavyweights one time vs Archie Moore and 2 times vs Ezzard Charles. Watch his fight against Moore and its incredible the amount of shots he missed with. Marciano was a good champion in a poor era but he's not a great compared to Louis, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield or Lewis.
John Maddin , You make many good points, however In That Era when they didn't stop fights because of a few cuts &or a guy getting out boxed for a min, they generally only stopped (championship) bouts when the guy was to hurt to carry on & RM was never close to that. He often got stronger after the 10th & could have gone full steam for 25rds. He was by far the best conditioned fighter of all time. Again I think you make good points but you don't factor that he in,which is an edge he had over any (especially heavyweight) fighter by light-years.
I can't believe the Cubs turned him down. He would have been one of the best baseball players of all time.
There's no sport he wouldn't have excelled in. In his time, he was the greatest athlete in the world.
According to Rocky's younger brother, Peter Marciano: He was always a long-ball hitter with a very weak throwing arm."
Marciano was also a slow runner, and all of that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because he became the greatest Heavyweight Boxer from his ERA and he is the only heavyweight boxer to retire undefeated.
@@richardmilliken8705 He had a weak throwing arm? Maybe the brothers had a baseball rivalry. I don´t know. I would think a guy who could throw a punch like that could throw a ball. But I guess it´s two different things.
@@mwbright Peter Marciano was 15 years younger than his brother Rocky, so i doubt there was any sibling rivalry. The fact that Rocky's power was utilized in hitting homeruns makes complete sense, since he had one of the most powerful KO punches in the history of Boxing. And the fact that Marciano had the shortest reach at 67" of any heavyweight champion in history and his handspeed was average at best, then it makes sense that he had a weak thowing arm. During my glory days, when i played baseball at the H.S. & College level, i was 5'11" at 195lb and i had a reach of 78" and i always won the throwing contests at the Jr Olympics and i played centerfield & pitcher, because of my strong throwing arm and my quick footspeed. Most great pitchers have huge hands and long arms with wide shoulders. Rocky had none of those qualities, so it makes complete sense that he had a weak throwing arm. Carlton Fisk is considered one of the GOAT Catchers and he made Marciano look like a little boy.
And Rocky was not accurate with his throws from homeplate to 2nd base. Marciano was also a very slow runner.
It turned out to be a blessing for Rocky because he is one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all-time.
And we are only talking about triple A baseball where the players are paid peanuts. You could make more money working at Walmart.
@@richardmilliken8705 Still, if Rocky was on the Cubs roster, I´d never miss a game.
He got out of the ring at the right time his brains weren’t scrambled !
Indeed! Rocky was smart enough to realize that he had reached his prime in 1955, at the age of 32, and his back had been causing problems for Rocky, in 1954-1955. When he found out that his manager, Al Weill had been screwing Marciano over financially, he decided it was time to retire on top. Rocky made more money in retirement, than he ever did in the ring.
And by getting paid in cash under-the-table, he avoided Uncle Sam's greedy hands.
Who ever thumbs this down are clowns! Brockton Blockbuster!
Great indeed. But do not forget that Joe Calzaghe of Wales and Giselle Salandy of Trinidad never lost a contest either.
you can have all the talent in the world but if you dont know how to condition then forget it. that one would stay with me
He was in different era they would not let boxers fight this way anymore how many fighters get knocked out of ring now it's what they did to football the defense has their hands tied you will never see another fighter like Rocky again.
Tyson was destroying & knocking out most of his opponents until Buster Douglas beat an out-of-shape & drug addicted Tyson.
And the fight between Hagler & Hearns was a lot more brutal than any of Marciano's fights. That was the GOAT 1st rounds of Boxing.
They say a great fighter is judged by how he comes back after defeat......Rocky was 49-0 enough said........
HE COULDN'T CONCEIVE OF LOSS...THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.
He was a great fighter he did not have great fighters to fight they were all over hill that's not his fault Moore Charles Lewis they were there late thirty or early 40s
Slam bam didn't give a dam...Ariche More who was last to fight Rocky.
Larry Holmes got knocked out by Tyson. Nobody knocked Rocky out .....ever.
Larry Holme was retired first;; years past his prime ;;;; rocky Marciano retired at 32 years old
@@lloydkline1518 Holmes had already lost to Spinks
@@hallowseve1698 said Larry Holme was undefeated _ old man until fough machiel spink
Back when there wasn't A/C and big metal fan blades hauling ass!
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Where's the video of Tiger Ted Lowry, the man who went the distance with Rocky Marciano and who many people say won that fight but was robbed ???
Tiger Ted was my trainer in Norwalk Ct he was a defensive genius and had the style to give Rocky trouble taught us to avoid being hit before showing us how to throw a punch at the greater Norwalk boxing association. I asked who the best fighter he faced was and his reply was Marciano , Joe Louis and Archie Moore in that order . He said the decisions could have gone either way but he didn’t feel he did enough to beat rocky and earn the fights . That being said he was proud of being the only man to fight Rocky and not get knocked in the 2nd match and was a true gentleman and fantastic trainer R.I.P. Ted you were a great man
@Studentofsweetscience That would be cool to see I’m just saying what Ted said to me basically he felt he won the first and second fights but could have been more aggressive to leave no doubt I would love to see the video link as I loved Ted as a fighter and a person he was a good man .
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50-0....floyd mayweather. no 1. But not Heavyweight......a points boxer. no cte......billionaire.......but yes a big mouth braggart....still 50-0 is a feat. gotta love him.
Rocky best Tyson garbage
Vitali klitschko would put Mike Tyson in a stretcher and body bag 🎒 in a boxing match
Peter the rocks brother, had a son who recently over dosedan on Heroin. Too bad. Rocky weighed 184 when winning title. He would of been a small cruiserweight! Never mind a Heavy. Matter of fact.WALCOTT had him down at 38...ARCHI MOORE had him down at 43! An over blown light heavy. U know who would of knocked him out and he only weighed 198...Jerry Quarry, that's right. Quarry knocked out the biggest puncher in history out in 1 rIund. EARNIE Shavers. AND that was when Shavers was 29...in his prime 6 yrs before he had Holmes down. Quarry had a great chin, he got cut in big fughts. And his ability to absorb tremendous punches shortened his career. He had Patterson down 4 times in 2 fughts.and Quarry got a draw which was a robbery and a win . And this was by age 23! His particular prime was age 22 to 28. He broke his hand in Sgavers fight. Ref should if stopped it sooner....about 12 punches into the 25 Shavers didn't respond too! And he beat Lyle same yr when Lyle was undeafeated! Quarry never was as good again. Broken hand, layoff and it was downhill from there. But bsck to Marciano...Look at first Quarry Frazier fight. Quarry stood toe to toe, and had Frazier hurt afew times. And Frazier had 29 lbs on Marciano. No Quarry woULD OF KNOCKED Rock into the cheap seats!!
Dont see it with jerry q he had heart but a bleeder
@@jamescampione8531 but Marciano was there to be hit..quarry both fights with Frazier he stood toe to toe. Marciano like I said to small. Hell Cockell who was a middleweight gave him problems. He was a fat heavyweight.No if Jerry bombed out a 210 Shavets... a 185 Marciano who only punched great with his right when Wusrry banged with both hands would of got him out of there.
Walcott, Charles, Moore, & Louis were all past their primes, but other than Louis(who was washed-up in 1951 at 37.)they all fought great fights against Marciano. Ezzard was only 2 years older than Rocky & his first fight against Marciano was very close and Walcott had dominated for 12 rounds before Marciano knocked him out in the 13th round. Both of those fighters would've had no problems beating Shavers or Quarry. Shavers was not a good Boxer from any stretch of the imagination.
With modern training, nutrition, and supplements, Rocky would've been fighting around 205lb during the 70s & he would've been stronger & faster. Rocky was a lot harder to hit than most people realize. Jerry lacked the KO punching power compared to Marciano and Shavers was easy to hit and Rocky would've had no problems knocking out Shavers with 1 punch.
Rocky's nephew, Peter Marciano Jr was one of the GOAT High School Footballs to come out of Brockton. Peter went on to Iowa University on a full athletic scholarship, and he broke Kick-off & Punt return records, and if not for severe knee & back injuries, he would've went on to the NFL to play Professional Football. Peter was only 5'7" at 175lb, but he could run the 40 in 4.45 seconds and bench-press over 400lb. He was also ranked as one of the top 100 handball players in the world, after he hung up his football cleats.
Marciano was a good fighter but lets be realistic he had his 6 title fights in a short period of which there was little in the way of talent and all of his title opponents were near 40 year old men which was ancient in boxing years back in an era before modern sports science and dieting techniques, and on top of that half his title fights were against mostly career light heavyweights in Archie Moore and Ezzard Charles. His bout against Roland La Starza was considered a bad decision and in his first fight against Walcott he was losing badly till he got a late knockdown, the second ended with a quick knock out. Another thing casual's don't know is the sheer amount of punches that Marciano missed with, its a ridiculously high percentage, he was a slugger and its outrageous for any serious fan of boxing to think he'd beat Larry Holmes, the dodgy Nevada State Athletic Authority stopped Holmes from equalling the record but it should be remembered when Holmes fought his 49th fight it was his 20th straight World Title defense and in those fights he fought good names Norton, Weaver, Shavers, Berbick, Spinks, Witherspoon, Williams, Cooney and Bey. I don't count Ali as he was shot and Frazier's son was not half the boxer his father was.
Ezzard Charles is the GOAT Light-Heavyweight Boxer & Holmes lost to the 5th GOAT Light-Heavyweight Boxer Mike Spinks twice. And Holmes beat an old & washed up Ali in 1980. Larry didn't fight Foreman or Frazier, but he did get KO by Mike Tyson.
Rocky's 1st fight against LaStarza was a split decision in which the fight was scored as a tie, but because the fight was held in New York, the Boxing Supplemental Rules indicated that if a Boxer knocked his opponent down on the canvas, he would be scored an extra point, and it was that extra point based on NY's Boxing rules that turned a tie fight into a victory for Rocky.
The Larry Holmes that fought & lost against Spinks twice, would've lost to Rocky. Now the Larry Holmes that proved his toughness & determination against Norton & Shavers would've beaten Marciano. Rocky may have missed over half of his punches, but considering that he threw between 85-100 punches per round, those punches that landed on his opponents caused a lot of damage. Marciano's KO punch against Walcott in the 13th round of their first Title Fight, was one of the GOAT KO Punches, in the history of Boxing. The reality is that Rocky would've been either a light-heavyweight or cruiser weight Boxing Champion, if he was fighting today. The heavyweight boxers were a lot smaller during Marciano's era.
Jack Johnson was the greatest
@Angry Grizzly I. Disagree.
@Angry Grizzly Johnson was man. Handling those prejudice racist white men.
@Angry Grizzly and I'm proud of him
Ali would have beaten marciano! Ali was better than marciano! Move then ko! Ali was and still the BEST!!!
Ali was beaten numerous times hed lose to floyed, rocky and tank
David Frazier beat Ali also knocked him down and Joe hit nowhere near as hard as Rocky.Also look what Tyson did to bigger fighters.
Rocky Marciano vs very young sonny liston ;;; 1950s before rocky Marciano retired; sonny liston invincible & bonecrushing punching power
Nobody invincible;; muhammad ali revenge his loss to Joe frazier,, plus up 1
Its not beating the record that would matter, Some one can hold the title and past the 49 mark, its about walking away when on top, and not coming back.