Rocky Marciano SportsCentury Part 3
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- This video is a bio on arguably the greatest heavyweight champion of all time ROCKY MARCIANO (born Rocco Francis Marchegiano) "THE BROCKTON BLOCKBUSTER" *Sep 1, 1923 - Aug 31, 1969*. He never lost a professional fight with a record of 49-0. This video is courtesy of ESPN and SportsCentury. I videotaped this show when it aired on the ESPN Classic Sports channel and now I recorded it off my TV. The quality is not too bad so enjoy. If you like boxing feel free to subscribe because I have a whole bunch of recorded footage and archives of other fights and other special boxing shows I will be adding.
Marciano was a relentless , persistent brawler of a fighter, always the aggressor , he simply threw everything he had , for every second of every round at his opponent, he just out fought and outlasted everyone he stepped into the ring with. The unbeaten champ was a brutal hardhittng and tough fighter, and did every he could to win,...and did, ....a great fighter,.but.his will to win ....was even Greater
Marciano was Tyson with a granite chin and a massive heart. Respect x Rip x
They asked Ali, which fighter would've been your hardest opponent, Ali said Rocky marciano ,he was better than Joe Frazer and look how well Joe fought against me, then Ali said it could've went either way, in there computer fight ,Ali said Rocky had hurt his forearms, and midsection from his punishing power, if any boxer could've beaten Ali it was Rocky by a knock out,and if any boxer could've beaten Rocky it was Ali by unanimous decision. Ali had great respect for Rocky,he was a pallbearer at Rocky funeral, it was said that Ali cryed. One of a few times he ever did in public.
I wish the Rocky Marciano haters could hear that. Many boxing greats such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson and others gave Marciano his due. The late great Cus D'Amato who trained Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and who advised Ali on a few fights. Cus D'Amato recognized Marciano as a great fighter.
And Still the Heavyweight Champion of The World Rocky Marciano 49n0 R.I.P Champ!
Hands down the greatest of all time
Rogger White 70s era had the best heavyweights.... Marciano wouldn't have a chance
Rocky Marciano vs 1950s invincible sonny liston! Before rocky Marciano retired
@@lloydkline1518 Their careers didn't overlap. Liston was only beginning when Rocky retired in 1955.. The late 1950's Liston would've been extremely tough match for Marciano. Sonny was a great technical boxer, had enormous power and a massive reach advantage over Rocky. He wiped out the entire heavyweight division. .
@@darricksalaam8312Trolling Rocco posts again, ehh? 49-ZZEEERROOOOOO
Ali,Louis,Foreman,Lost In Their Prime.Rocky Did Not.Marciano:#☝️
Ali never exceed 1400 PSI hits like Klitshko ..Geeatest punchers of anl times was Marciano and Ernie Shavers (1900 psi)
@Anderl Blakely I keep seeing people uneducated on the matter regurgitating the same generic garbage. There is 1 reason and 1 reason only that the mob or anyone fixed fights and that reason was money and money was only made in the betting odds. An odds favourite had to lose a fight for money to be made so there was litterally no real money to be made in rocky winning fights because after he became popular he was nearly always favoured to win and there was no money in him winning. The only way the mob would benefit would be by rocky losing a big fight and that never happened. The heavyweight that we all knew for sure that was envolved with the mod was sonny liston and he was hugely favoured to beat Ali but he quite on his stool and went down in the rematch and there was a lot of money made in him losing and it's suspected that he took a dive. Whether he did or didn't we will never know but we do know he was in the mob and we do know he was a huge favourite to win but lost and we do know a crap ton of a lot of money was made by him losing. As far as your saying there are no american white fighters and never will be again, that makes you sound incredibly stupid and saying things that stupid will make anyone of any intelligence never take you seriously. Obviously there are white american boxers, I know plenty of them.
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 ???
@@truthhitman7473”Many people”. Sure kid. Sure😂
They say Joe Lewis was old at 37 when he fought Marciano but George Foreman was heavyweight champion of the world at 45 I don`t understand that.
Makes no sense right ahah same as archie Moore was 37 and rocky 32 just haters talking crap that's all
Rick Nelson Different day and age. Heavyweights typically peak later than smaller guys. Smaller guys are typically out of their primes by 33, 34 years old. Back in those days guys fought longer, harder fights. Nutrition and training was different as well. Not only that, guys fought more often back then. So fighters aged faster in those days.
also, if I remember correctly, it seems like there was a dearth of great fighters around when Foreman came back.
superb video.. thanks
marciano - great fighter
tough man
true gentlemen
one of the very best in any era of this amazing sport
It makes me laugh when people say Louis was old at 37 yet when Ali beat Liston who was either 43 44 or 45 or that Ali beat Moore 8 yrs after Marciano kod him, Louis later said he was never hit so hard so repetitively
Marciano in my opinion, is underrated not overrated...the most durable and relentless heavyweight there's ever been....he was simply a persistent brawler of a fighter,..who out fought and wore down all who he faced......a great unbeaten champ
At that point Louis actually had skills and saavy that he didn't have as a younger fighter.
Rocky fish true that age nowdays is your prime
❤ .for 1960 muhammad ali ( Olympics muhammad ali vs sonny liston 1960 or 1962 year ;; sonny liston vs muhammad ali ;; muhammad ali sleeping on canvas on a stretcher
I would have loved to see the damage that Marciano could do had he carried the weight of an average heavyweight, he would've literally killed people with that kind of power. This guy could've fought 20 round fights if needed. He was a punching machine!
Like Holmes said he fought his cousins and nephews he was the greatest cacausion fighter I guess
@@roberthorton661949-0 says he’s the greatest fighter EVER. He just happened to be Italian. Yous guys obviously have a problem with that. TOO BAD
Brilliant fighter, could be the best of all time
He sure dam earned His way. RIP Rockey.
Marciano would of destroyed Ali, he so well conditioned and hit harder than Frazier and chuvalo, prime Ali was dropped a few times later Ali would of gone to the ropes and waited for rocky Marciano to tire but that just wouldn't of happened,
All of these Mafia guys that controlled boxing still at this time, robbed a lot of boxers blind. I just watched the Marciano movie where Favreau played him. Actually a very good movie
Louis Was Not Over The Hill.He Won 8 Straight Before This One,And Even Won 2 Rounds.
Louise was past his prime but rocky wasn't in his prime yet so neither were in their prime so in that regard it was a level playing field. Louise was much more experienced thpugh because he was several years older and also because rocky started fighting at the age of 25.
oh yes he was he would knocked Marciano out a few years earlier
You want to know the bottom line about the Rock? Don Turner trained 20 world champions and has 50 plus years experience in Boxing. I attached a 4 minute video at the end of this message where Don talks about Rocky, LISTEN TO HIM. Don was there when Rocky fought--not 60 years in the future sitting behind a laptop and not knowing a damn thing about Marciano and fighting. So many birdbrains say Rocky at 188 lbs could not fight against the 200-250 lb fighters of today, listen to what Don Turner says about that. To of you you pugilistic fools, watch Ali vs Doug Jones. To see it on You Tube, you wlil have to put it Clay vs Jones. Doug Jones weighed 188 and rocked the hell out of Ali in the first round of the fight. Jones also went the distance with the greatest and was a hell of a fighter. Watch this video and LEARN! @
Don inosanto stated that Bruce Lee was a miniature Rocky Marciano. Lee was one of the hardest punches you'd ever face. No wonder Bruce Lee was confident enough to the point that he wanted to face Ali one day.
HOW COMPARABLE IS THERE POWER
hevwey championm on the world Rocky Marciano..Marciano
He punched form all angles hit ya in the arm's just kept coming.
"Coming to America" Barber shop scene "He whupped Joe Louis's ass"
Marciano is the best ever!
How come there were so many times that this just seems to skip parts in a flash? No offense I like this, i'm just curious!
Well Mike I dunno but. Holifield and it has been rumored tyson may have not been clean athletes. That is what hate about juicers. Rocky could work his balls off and a juicer can half ass it and out perform him. That defeats the purpose of sport.
Rocky marciano is said to have had the hardest punch in the history of boxing, people say this is due to him swinging a baseball bat over 3000 times a day when he was a teenager but anyway his punch had higher PSI then mike Tyson and foreman.
You can't compare Marciano to someone who plays a team sport.
The films don't lie. I saw a film of Jim Corbett fighting a top fighter of his day and couldn't quit laughing. Neither fighter knew how to throw a punch. The one guy was closing his eyes when he threw a right. They were street fighters with guts to get in the ring. That goes for Dempsey too. Where was he going to get all of this great ring acumen? He was a hobo riding the rails. We don't even know his true wins and losses because he was fighting in pickup fights in bars.
@henry dicarlo
He knocked out plenty of good opponents. He took Gibbons the 15 round distance and won. He was coming off a 3yr-layoff aganist Tunney, and still manage to catch and floor him for a long-count. Most of his losses came from short 4-6 rounders, on points. Most believe that he took a dive aganist Flynn, during their first bout, because he was starving/and had not eaten for several days. Clinching was an artform in old-school boxing.
@LVSWTZ ....certainly he fought over the hill guys,its been a crticism,and is to a degree valid.dempsey comapred tp rock,i dont know actually.both these guys tend to be underated by most these days.obviously i like jack,but i think the hollywood thing affected his intensity in the latter part of his career.i could go on and on as to specifics but suffice it to say both are easily on every informed top 10 in history list.both animals both skilled both durable,dempsey was rocks model.
And they stunk too. They wrestled more than fought with their fists. If you want to believe he was a great fighter that's nice. I've read everything there is about the guy and seen all of the existing films of him comparing the film to the print description in the period papers. For the 1920's he was a nice heavyweight but after Louis and the fighters after him came on the scene - he was obsolete. The film does not lie.
take a smart,fast, very strong,well trained fighter to off set marciano,but he could be beat.what matters i guess tho, is that he wasnt beat,guy was a pure brute.
Al would slap Marciano across the face?!?!?!?!?!? AND AL LIVED ANOTHER DAY?????
None better than the Rock!
Dempsey fought welter weights and light heavies. He lost the Firpo fight when he got knocked out of the ring by someone who was nothing but an amateur. Dempsey was another one of those great three round fighters after he reached three, he was lost.
Dempsey came back to WIN that Firpo fight. And Dempsey was NOT “just a three round fighter.” Where did you get this crapola?
@@Lucille69caddy He was knocked out of the ring and was helped by the reporters to get back in he was supposed to get back in by himself with no help within 10 seconds he didn't do it. He lost. And Firpo was no better than an amateur. He was a 6 round fighter and was known for having bad stamina. Read the newspapers of the time, dummy. He only became popular when he got pummeled by Tunney a powder puff puncher. He only won 1 round out of 20 rounds they fought. No crapola - facts. He's lucky he never had to fight a good fighter instead of middle weights and guys with brights disease.
@LVSWTZ yea,that gets said alot,and its probably true.i always half believed marciano was that good,until i watched him more.clearly he was a terribly tuff,and skilled guy imo.his puching mechanics were perfect,his power was no accident.
Man o man he almost did decapitate Harry kid Mathews and the way he set him was brilliant,Mathews was thinking looking right hand right hand Rocky's bread and butter instead Rocky feints right hand throws a left hook grazes his chin then he catches him on chin with a short but perfect check left hook I thought Mathews head was gonna come off at the shoulders my God he can punch
Fun Fact MARCIANO means MARTIAN in Italian - Coincidence ? I think Not - MARTIANS RULE ! ! !
tape skips like mad,can't finish it dude sorry.
Rocky hit too hard for Roy Jones.
Something a little different.
@beardigady I'd love to see a fight between these two at their best. That would be a great fight. As much as I like Rocky I think Mike Tyson would win.
There comes a time when the disadvantages are too great and here against Tyson, Marciano would be at too much of a disadvantage, in weight.
Ali beat a way past Sonny Liston as mentioned below...yet everyone says how brilliant Ali was. I put Rocky above Ali all day everyday. Rock was the best !
12 years difference yes. Tyson beat Holmes who was 17 years older. Ali and Tyson both beat many men more than 10 years older as well as every other champion. People use age differences to try and discredit rocky although other champions do the same. At least rocky never fought with more than 10 years difference. Walcott 9 years older, Moore 8 years, Charles a year and a half unlike Tyson 17 year difference from Holmes or ali 12 year with liston. Patterson was 19 years younger than Archie moore and Ali was 26 years younger than Archie Moore when they fought lol.
Muhammad ali fought a 32 years old sonny liston:: rocky Marciano retired at 32 years old;; 1960 / 1962 sonny liston would've put muhammad ali on a stretcher to sleep on the canvas
Mike Tyson fans ❤ prison excuses stuff ;; buster Douglas beat Tyson before prison & Evander hollyfield & Lennox Lewis knockout Mike Tyson after prison same age stuff basic
Then what are you judging these guys off of, rumor? The films of Dempsey are revealing enough. The Tunney fights, the Firpo fights, the Carpentier fights, Brennan fight, And the Massacre in Toledo. Then again how do you gauge greatness? They were champions and people of the day admired them. So I guess they were great.
2500$ was the equivalent to 26,474.58$ in today's money
Looks like Marciano is eating oatmeal on the thumbnail. I was encouraged to eat that back when I lifted weights.
Marciano was what bruce lee would like in a fighter awkward and unpredictable. Not technical not able to be read. Ultimate no way as way. too bad no one gives him credit for throwing people off.
@cookiegate wut mike did steroids ? :S
The better fighters are the ones that could go the 15 rounds. He couldn't.
that's right.
Also a scientific boxer like Ali !!
That's all right. I understand that you are insane.
@dempsey981 didn't fight any body in there prime....weak era
THEIR prime.
@screamingdean5 Tyson is Bigger. Stronger. Faster. More Accuarte. Better Defense. That's a No Brainer.
I wonder how Rocky Marciano would have done against someone like Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson vs Vitali klitschko; Vitali klitschko would've put Mike Tyson in a body 🎒bagin the canvas
haaaaaaaaaaa,[breath]haaaaaaaaa.thanks for your opinion.excuse me,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Firpo was an amateur with about 20 pro fights when Dempsey fought him and Firpo really won that fight. If you don't want to use the films then what are you using to show he was any good because the newspaper accounts don't match what the films show. They exaggerated his prowess to get people to read the papers. Dempsey was still fairly young when he fought Tunney and Tunney showed how over rated he really was. One round in twenty rounds are not close fights.
@Rockyfan10060 that would explain your user name
I never read any of this - anywhere. The films don't lie. Dempsey was the most over rated fighter of all time. There are no cat like moves that the media of the day describe and his stamina was highly questionable. He telegraphed his punches and his chin was highly questionable against heavy hitters - e.g.Firpo and Flynn. In twenty rounds he fought with Tunney he won only one round. The reason they fought ten rounders was because Dempsey knew he couldn't fight 15 with a quality opponent.
@ledzeppelin104 lol. bull
that's right.