Marciano training for Joe Louis.

[Southpaw Stinger]

Rocky looks real thin, there. Must've been in great shape.

What and James Toney doesn't? lol

[The Raging Bull]

That's some great footage there.

Marciano was a great champion and a true gentleman outside the ring. But in it he really was a savage fighter.

[SABBATH]

Toney in fighting shape looks like Marciano before he started training for the fake Ali fight.

[K-DOGG]

I like that one. Theres another with Marciano when he visited the Leper colony. He shook their hands and chatted with them and people thought he was insane, he said something along the lines of 'They're people too. If I'm going to catch something, I'm gonna catch it. If not, I won't.' Yet when he went to a restaurant he always wiped off the silverware with a napkin. He was a great guy.

Wow.

You know, this is gonna sound morbid; but these types of stories and others I've heard really make me think about that whole "the good die young" thing. Rocky seems to be one of the few people that actually got "why we are here"...almost as if he wasn't meant for this world long, etc.

What a classy guy. He really wore the mantel of "World Champion" well.

[RockyMarcianofan00]

What and James Toney doesn't? lol

BOOBIES

From the few images I have of the fight (on my computer) Marciano looks alittle thinner, then again could be the angle considering Marciano was rather large for the Comp fight...

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[Sin City]

I like that one. Theres another with Marciano when he visited the Leper colony. He shook their hands and chatted with them and people thought he was insane, he said something along the lines of 'They're people too. If I'm going to catch something, I'm gonna catch it. If not, I won't.' Yet when he went to a restaurant he always wiped off the silverware with a napkin. He was a great guy.

are you shure that wasnt Che Guevara on the motorcycle diaries..lol j/p marciano was ill!

[phallus]

It's no secret he's one of my favorites, both for his style and what he symbolized. Hard working working class guy who got ahead honestly. Rocky lived clean, and didn't talk **** about anyone. He saved his anger for the ring.

Ever hear the one about Marciano and the gay bar? One of Marciano's friend brought him to a gay bar and then proceeded to make fun of the guys there, expecting Marciano to get a kick out of. Instead, Marciano is really pissed and says something like "we're the ones who are out of place here", and then as one of the gay patrons at the bar shly approached Marciano with a napkin, he signed it and shook the man's hand and smiled. This is in the 1950's, when ****sexuality was considered a mental illness, in front of a bunch of tough guy friends.

Marciano didn't have to do that. He was a man of strong principles and morals.

I like that one. Theres another with Marciano when he visited the Leper colony. He shook their hands and chatted with them and people thought he was insane, he said something along the lines of 'They're people too. If I'm going to catch something, I'm gonna catch it. If not, I won't.' Yet when he went to a restaurant he always wiped off the silverware with a napkin. He was a great guy.

i've never heard either of these stories before but i can see it. The Rock is one of my favorite fighters because of his heart and punching power. i'd watch clips of his fights before i'd go sparring, i don't fight anymore, but even now, every time i see the Rock training or fighting it makes me wish i could turn pro

BOOBIES

From the few images I have of the fight (on my computer) Marciano looks alittle thinner, then again could be the angle considering Marciano was rather large for the Comp fight...

[IMG]http://i133.***********.com/albums/q58/RockyMarcianofan00/Rocky%20Marciano%20pics/PLX035790.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i133.***********.com/albums/q58/RockyMarcianofan00/Rocky%20Marciano%20pics/Superfight.jpg[/IMG]

ROcco got up to around 250 lbs after he retired from boxing, he trained hard for the ali computer fight

[QueensburyRules]

- -Did Rocky's family ever find those coffee cans of Rocky's $$$ he buried for safe keeping?

Ali attended his funeral and is said to have advanced his destitute widow some cash to keep her going during that interim. He and Rock were always tight with each other after their computer tourney.

In 1947 freshly discharged as the Army Heavy champ, he realized a dream to try out for the Chicago Cubs spring camp in Fayetteville, N Carolina, the same field that Jim Thorpe and Babe Ruth used to blast their record setting HRs.

Musta rubbed off on Rock though he was to clumsy to make the team. He set his own iconic record that my next door elderly neighbor can recite with rare precision-

49-0, 43 KO...only in boxing!

Numerical Irony? After his failed 1947 try out, he crashed and burned at age 47.

[billeau2]

i've never heard either of these stories before but i can see it. The Rock is one of my favorite fighters because of his heart and punching power. i'd watch clips of his fights before i'd go sparring, i don't fight anymore, but even now, every time i see the Rock training or fighting it makes me wish i could turn pro







ROcco got up to around 250 lbs after he retired from boxing, he trained hard for the ali computer fight

Lol. So to satisfy the size queens he could have fought at 220 and looked like most heavyweights today at that size. And the chorus of size queens would all say "good thing he was not 190 pounds! He wouldn't have a chance!"

[ShoulderRoll]

- -Did Rocky's family ever find those coffee cans of Rocky's $$$ he buried for safe keeping?

Ali attended his funeral and is said to have advanced his destitute widow some cash to keep her going during that interim. He and Rock were always tight with each other after their computer tourney.

In 1947 freshly discharged as the Army Heavy champ, he realized a dream to try out for the Chicago Cubs spring camp in Fayetteville, N Carolina, the same field that Jim Thorpe and Babe Ruth used to blast their record setting HRs.

Musta rubbed off on Rock though he was to clumsy to make the team. He set his own iconic record that my next door elderly neighbor can recite with rare precision-

49-0, 43 KO...only in boxing!

Numerical Irony? After his failed 1947 try out, he crashed and burned at age 47.

It's not a record anymore. Limited only to one weight class now.

But I bet U gonna cry about it like a sissy when you respond to this post.