What gets me is knowing that he literally ran 15 mi every day. Is conditioning was unmatched.

I've watched a few of his fights and he sure does keep swingin' - even after the bell! He had a bad habit of taking a swipe either at or shortly after the bell. Not a fan of that move...

@Charley Barley That's fine that you are not a fan of that move. It was part of what made Rocky the greatest HW boxer. 🙂

Rocky Marciano defended his title only 6 times. Twice against former Middleweight Ezzard Charles, Once against aging former light heavyweight Archie Moore, Once against the man he took the title from 39 year old Jersey Joe Walcott, Once against Britain's Don Cockell and once against some other fight I don't know the name of. Who were the 43 previous opponents he fought before he won the title and padded up his record ? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mp5lg9Sd1KjVZmw.html

@@truthhitman7473 It's easy to denigrate any fighter friend. Tyson beat 40-year-old Holmes, puffed up light heavyweight Spinx Several other over the hill fighters. And many "kids" not ready to fight at that level such as Marvis Frasier. Tell me does any of that mean that Tyson wasn't a great fighter at his peak? Stop degrading a dead boxing legend. Save your hate for someone worthy of it like Vladimir Putin

Marciano's 185 lb punching power doesn't come close to a 245 to 275 lb Ibeabuchi, Lewis, Vitali, Foreman or Fury type of Heavier Weighted Power which effortlessly produces more torque and leverage. If u had to break up large boulder would u use 8oz ball peen hammer or 8 lb sledgehammer? Size matters otherwise boxing wouldn't have 18 different weight classes. Featherweights would be fightin middleweights and cruisers would be fightin Super Heavies. There are no height divisions, age divisions or reach division, because weight at heavyweight boxing is one of the most important factor. Super Heavyweights are increasing because Eastern European fighters are now allowed to fight in the USA since around 2000 (Hall of Fame Klitschko brothers dominated Heavyweight boxing for TWENTY years) and international travel is much easier compared to 30 40 50 years ago. Even a new Bridgerweight division between 200 and 224 lbs was recently added because too many 215 lb heavyweights complained. We'll never-ever see small cruiserweights 182 lb Floyd Patterson, 183 lb Ezzard Charles and 184 lb Rocky Marciano as heavyweight champions again. Boxing has evolved, PROVEN QUALITY SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT SIZE MATTERS, like it or not.

@@bobbyd5276 Sophia, you are probably right in what you say. But it is so hard to compare, Rocky 's performance's to the present day.

@@petersimcox4745 In May 1950, the IRS finished a full audit of Louis' past returns and announced, that with interest and penalties, he owed the government more than $500,000. Louis had no choice but to return to the ring. The Louis camp negotiated a deal with the IRS under which Louis would come out of retirement, with all Louis's net proceeds going to the IRS. A match with light heavyweight Ezzard Charles - [ who had acquired the vacant (paper champion) heavyweight title in June 1949 by outpointing Walcott ] - was set for September 27, 1950. Louis was 36 and had been retired for 2 years! Weighing in at his heaviest ever 218 lbs, Joe's washed reflexes were gone, and prime 183 lb light heavyweight Charles repeatedly beat him to the punch. By the end of the fight, Louis was cut above both eyes, one of which was shut tight by swelling. Charles battered Joe till his face looked like hamburger. He knew he had lost even before Charles was declared the winner. The result was not the only disappointing aspect of the fight for Louis; only 22,357 spectators paid to witness the event at Yankee Stadium, and his share of the purse was a mere $100,458. Louis had to "continue" fighting.

@@petersimcox4745 What Marciano fans refuse to accept and acknowledge is that Louis was FORCED to come out of retirement for his match with light heavyweight Charles. [[ Remember when prime 25 year old Ali lost 3 years? Remember when prime 26 year old Tyson lost 3 years? Both definitely lost a step and were never the same because father time waits for No-One!!! ]] Louis already had 54 (debut 1932) amateur fights,, 68 professional fights,, and 96 fights before 2 million soldiers during his 4 year military service. In other words Joe had already been fighting and sparing thousands of rounds for TWENTY YEARS before facing Marciano. He was also showing symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. CTE was once known as dementia pugilistica, or punch-drunk syndrome. Marciano vs Louis was no different than Holmes vs Ali or Tyson vs Holmes. BUT BUT Joe Louis was still a perfectly fine top-notch quality opponent in the eyes of Rocky fans because Joe was on an 8 fight winning streak before facing Rocky... Let's examine these 8 boxers: 196 lb Cesar Brian -- Unanimous Decision 197 lb Cesar Brian -- (twice) -- UD 191 lb Freddie Beshore -- KO 187 lb Omelio Argrmonte -- UD 188 lb Omelio Argrmonte -- (twice) -- UD 194 lb Andy Walker -- TKO 190 lb 104-44-4 -- Lousy washed Lee Savold -- KO 179 lb light heavyweight Jimmy Bivens -- UD Talk about bum of the month club, WOW. It was obviously a carefully hand-picked set-up. Boxing-elites needed that Louis vs Marciano $$-SHOW-$$

@@petersimcox4745 October of 1951, the 37 year old washed Brown Bomber faintly resembled the well-oiled and efficient fighting machine he was during the mid to late 1930’s. He had nothing left offensively but a semblance of his left jab. He was slow of both hand and foot, and needed to have his feet set perfectly in order to get off. His punching power had all but evaporated, evidenced by him scoring only 3 knockouts in his last 10 fights. Due to Louis not having the punch to bother Marciano, in addition to him needing to be lined up perfectly to get off, Joe was never in the fight. Louis was devoid of everything in his offensive arsenal. Joe’s speed and power were just a memory. His accuracy and timing were long gone and his reflexes were no longer instinctive. Joe Louis was a sitting duck for Marciano’s aggression and work-rate. In other words Joe had nothing left to neutralize Rocky. By contrast, Marciano was just entering his prime. Few boxing insiders believed Louis had a chance. Fighting back tears, Ferdie Pacheco said in the SportsCentury documentary about Louis' bout with Marciano, "He (Louis) wasn't just going to lose. He was going to take a vicious, savage beating." In the dressing room after the fight, Louis's military touring companion, Sugar Ray Robinson, wept. However, prime for prime it’s a different story. Marciano would have had to deal with Louis’ explosive and hard jab, set-up uppercuts and finishing hooks and right hands. Rocky woulda carried the fight to Joe, and instead of meeting him at center ring and trading, Louis would have inched back and countered Marciano and looked to fight him on the inside with his back to the ropes. Because Louis needed little room to punch and could get off in tight quarters, he would have been able to punch inside and beat Marciano's round punches to the mark all night.

marnzeep klemfrzxq agreed.

Savold just stood there like a heavy punching bag

104 fights! Solid.

@@vincentwilliams8685 45 losses...not so much

@@vincentwilliams8685 that would be 153 fights…

I think that was against rex layne

@@dirtyjew1974 First bout was in Detroit on Sept. 7, 1954. Sonny Liston showed his greatness against Marty Marshall. While laughing at Marty's unorthodox ring tactics, Liston was caught by a Marshall right hand and suffered a broken jaw on both sides but still went the distance, losing on an eighth-round split decision. Liston said he never felt so much pain in his life. He met Marshall again seven months later, on April 21, 1955, and won by a sixth-round TKO after flooring Marshall four times. Not only could Liston violently smash opponents, but he could take a punch too. Liston proved he was champion material just like Ali did vs Norton when he got his jaw snapped. Third bout was 1956-03-06 at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Referee: Buck McTiernan Judge: Ernie Sesto Judge: George Lupinacci "Sonny Liston, 203, St. Louis, won an easy decision over Marty Marshall, 179, Detroit, in the 10-round main event of a fight card at the Gardens tonight. Both judges and referee Buck McTiernan scored the bout the same-the first round even and the next nine for Liston. Marshall spent most of his time retreating." - Associated Press Liston sure wasn't laughing when he smashed Patterson not once but twice to become & remain Heavyweight Champion of the world. Didn't little 182 lb cruiserweight Patterson KO the great Archie Moore? YES.. "I felt Floyd Patterson is a vastly improved fighter. He has potentialities of being a great fighter when he gets some experience. I felt confident I could beat him, but I also learned that youth can be too much." - Archie Moore

@@dirtyjew1974 I watched u build up Marty Marshall for years and now i finally have the complete honest version. It's Sad u Exaggerate so much. Hope you're feeling better!

@@bobbyd5276 Yes it is sad Bobby D wannabe. Your post that is. Your comment, Sonny Liston showed his greatness against Marty Marshall. Now that is sad. How is greatness even needed against Marshall, a man with a career record of 24-14-2 .Your comment makes no sense. Talk about exaggeration

@@dirtyjew1974 You're trolling Rocky videos for years like a psycho. What's your issue? They say in this video he was sick lately

Are you crazy? Savold was getting the shit beat out of him

Wow looks like you don't know much about boxing smfh!!

Savior was at the end of a terrible career. He had visible scar tissue around his eyes and was being savaged by Marciano.

Like the armchair boxers that thought Golotta was a wimp because he quit rather than die in the ring at the fist of Tyson. Never mind the crushed face, dislocated neck disc and concussion !

Easy to say not so easy to prove friend

The best ever light heavyweight

marciano would've kayo'd dempsey the 1/2 termite.

@@atheistleopard6225 I don't know. He was pretty tough.

5'11" little Tyson defeated some good fighters and some not so good fighters like 40-year-old Larry Holemes and the kid Marvis Frazier. Then there was the pumped up LH Michael Spinx. And there were other he defeated that were not so good. Little Mike had t fight just the right people Just try to give your racism a rest you are not convincing anyone that Rocky Marciano was not a great champion

I train on a 27,000 pound Heavy bag.

@@bobbyd5276 I hope your wife doesn’t read that comment.

@@MyVeryHappyDay Lunatic

@@MyVeryHappyDay LOL

@@blackDavidFrost-n-desmoines685 I have given you his record of title fights with the ages of his opponents. His record shows that he fought and beat-up old men. 👨‍🦯 If you are beating up old men, you are bound to have a high knock out rate. 👴🏾 👴🏾👴🏿 👴🏿

The old men beat all the young men to get to the top.

@@oakenbeard8884 Marciano (age 29) Vs Savold (age 37). As I stated, Marciano beat up old men. Savold Record : W 105, D 2, L 45.

@@felontrump5910 WRONG; Rex lane [ 23 ], Roland laStarza [ 24 ], Ted Lowry [ 30 ], Willis Applegate [ 30 ], Don Cockell [ 27]. Harry Matthews [ 30 ] You should do a little research before talking about things you dont know about.

@@oakenbeard8884 There are those like you who want to claim that Marciano was the ‘Greatest Heavyweight of All Time’. My comment is to show that the fighters he fought who had been ‘Somebodies’ and former World Champions were old men by the time Marciano fought them. The fighters you quote were ‘No Marks’ and helps prove my point about Marciano which is that he is totally overrated.

Wow times change and people go larger. You're really on top of your game 😂

@@bobbyd5276 No reply because of the insults

@@bobbyd5276 I was going to answer your long researched, if correct, opinion that Rocky didn't end a lot of fighter's careers. You deleted the whole thing but keep writing. I better reply before the delete the new ones. Before you deleted it you removed the insults and I was going to compliment you because only a big woman would do that lol You started with Joe Louis. He was a shell of himself but won his last bunch of fights in a row over good competition. Coming into the bout, Marciano was a 6½-to-5 underdog. You gave a long list of mostly opponent type fighters who stopped fighting after Marciano. Some had long records but after all those fights only quit after Marciano. In other words, let's say a fighter had a 20-21 record or 20-10 record. He didn't quite after any of the 20 or 21 fights but only after Marciano. Of course many continued fighting. Anyway, boxing experts have said that no one was the same after fighting him. For example, Roland LaStarza put up a good fight in their second fight and the first one was close. His arms and blood vessels and bones were damaged from blocking punches. He was in bad shape. Marciano was a huge puncher.

@@bobbyd5276 You just want to show Rocky was a bad guy? Why? How about Tyson mugging old women and all the boxers who did time for armed robbery etc? That's all bad. You want to go back for many years and find something bad. Marciano was in the army during WW2. I don't think he actually was in combat. Did you thank him for his service? He slept with thousands? That is probably a bit of an exaggeration but I wasn't there. Were you? Maybe he was separated or something else went on. Are you perfect? Have you ever made a mistake?

@@bobbyd5276 It's better you didn't insult me

@@bobbyd5276 I don’t know any Jimbo or Jim.

We do know factually that Ross and Eatman *Took-A-Dive vs. Marciano.* ..was it for $$$ or were they forced to protect themselves and their families frm the same folks that protected Rocky?? *"'Amazing recovery by Eddie Ross after being KO'd by Rocky Marciano the previous day,"' according to BoxRec* ...in less than 24 hours 170-lb Ross fought 160-lb Billy Sparks. *What had happened was Eddie immediately jumped in a vehicle after diving against Rocky and drove from Rhode Island, Providence to Quebec City, Quebec - 8 hr 15 min 465.9 mi via I-93 N* --Ross also fought 10 amateurs with 0-0-0 debut records. Eldridge Eatman 22 wins 20 losses with 22% KO's. *"'Eatman proved no opposition for Marciano,'" according to BoxRec and the Providence Journal, "'Marciano hit Eatman with a right in the 3rd round and Eatman went down, THOUGH IT DIDN'T APPEAR HE WAS HIT'"* ..that's not all,, the last 9 fights Eatman had leading up to his fight with Marciano he went *1 win 8 losses!* I understand throwing matches happened before Rocky's era, and after Rocky's era. But the 50s boxing era was the pinnacle for corruption and 100% monopolized. Padding records and takin dives didn't happen once a month, it was the daily norm. Think, people. Think. (( *In the old days, ringers could boost their income by fighting repeatedly. Padding your record against weak opponents can yield good results- the real stumblebums are the guys who make a career of losing. In small-time fights, the less-talented fighter often gets the bulk of the cash; he is, after all, providing a valuable service by losing so reliably--The Ring Magazine* ))

Little white 184 lb Marciano had a featherweight arm reach of 67" inches. Imagine penguin🐧arms Rocky trying to fight authentic Super Heavyweights with 50 to 80+ pound weight advantages and 80" to 85" arm reaches? What an embarrassment Rocky would have been today.

Marciano's 185 lb punching power doesn't come close to a 245 to 275 lb Ibeabuchi, Lewis, Vitali, Foreman or Fury type of Heavier Weighted Power which effortlessly produces more torque and leverage. If u had to break up large boulder would u use 8oz ball peen hammer or 8 lb sledgehammer? Size matters otherwise boxing wouldn't have 18 different weight classes. Featherweights would be fightin middleweights and cruisers would be fightin Super Heavies. There are no height divisions, age divisions or reach division, because weight at heavyweight boxing is one of the most important factor. Super Heavyweights are increasing because Eastern European fighters are now allowed to fight in the USA since around 2000 (Hall of Fame Klitschko brothers dominated Heavyweight boxing for TWENTY years) and international travel is much easier compared to 30 40 50 years ago. Even a new Bridgerweight division between 200 and 224 lbs was recently added because too many 215 lb heavyweights complained. We'll never-ever see small cruiserweights 182 lb Floyd Patterson, 183 lb Ezzard Charles and 184 lb Rocky Marciano as heavyweight champions again. Boxing has evolved, PROVEN QUALITY SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT SIZE MATTERS, like it or not.

So Fury, Lewis, Vitali, and Foreman all would have lost if they fought the hyped-up tomato cans little white Marciano fought? Give me a break. LaStarza, Savold, Cockell, and Matthews would be humiliated in the real Heavyweight world.

As soon as Lee felt Marciano's power, he immediately went on defense and tried to stay away. Marciano retired Lee. Lee was beaten up bad and had to go to the hospital. Before the fight he doped himself up on pain medication.

audio seems a bit off. other videos sound more in sync

I noticed he's not punching either

Sometimes the crowd is so loud the boxers couldn't hear the bell. Ali Liston #1 was that way in round one. Both continued to punch after the bell.

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