Michalczewski: I've lost 30 million!

[TheGreatA]

Whenever a European fighter defeats an opponent, some people will always say the opponent was "washed up" or "he was old" or "he was a bum" to discredit the win.

According to such people, no European boxer can ever be great, no matter what they do.

Rocchigiani was washed up, there's no question about it.

[Enemy/Friend]

Whenever a European fighter defeats an opponent, some people will always say the opponent was "washed up" or "he was old" or "he was a bum" to discredit the win.

According to such people, no European boxer can ever be great, no matter what they do.

To bad The Machine is Finnish so your rant is pointless.

[larryx]

the ****ed up thing is..he lost 15 mil to his first wife..then got married again...fool me once shame on you..fool me twice shame on me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Kid McCoy]

rocchigiani knocked him out but thank god for corrupt euro boxing!

As opposed to whiter than white American boxing! The kind of boxing which saw Rocchigiani have his belt illegally taken from him and handed back to Roy Jones.

[Enemy/Friend]

As opposed to whiter than white American boxing! The kind of boxing which saw Rocchigiani have his belt illegally taken from him and handed back to Roy Jones.

Why did they strip his belt? What was the reason?

[Orgasmatron]

Teh almighty ***** led to his downfall.

[TheGreatA]

Why did they strip his belt? What was the reason?

Roy Jones vacated it to move up to the heavyweight division, Rocchigiani won the vacant title by a split decision against Michael Nunn, Jones decided not to go to the heavyweight division and was given back his belt.

Rocchigiani then sued the WBC for millions of dollars.

[medium-deek]

Teh almighty ***** led to his downfall.

Bwahahahaaah.

[Kid McCoy]

Why did they strip his belt? What was the reason?

Back in 1998, Roy Jones, the WBC 175lb champ, was told he had to make his next defence against either Rocchigiani or Michael Nunn. But Jones had his eyes on bigger paydays and vacated his belt with the intention of fighting at heavyweight against Buster Douglas. So the WBC had Nunn and Rocchigiani fight for their vacant title. Rocchigiani won, and was declared their new champion, even receiving a congratulatory letter from Jose Sulaiman.

Meanwhile, Jones' fight with Douglas fell through, and he moved back down to 175, so the WBC simply handed him back his belt, now declaring that Rocchigiani had only been an "interim" champion. Rocchigiani was understandably pissed at this turn of events, and sued the WBC, winning a $30m judgment, which would have forced the WBC into bankruptcy had he not settled for a compromise fee. Even today, most of what the WBC earns is used to keep up the repayments to Rocchigiani.

Just one of many squalid episodes in boxing history.

[The Hammer]

To bad The Machine is Finnish so your rant is pointless.

TheManchine is Finnish, and I'm from the interior of Greenland.