Marciano, 49-0 with forty-three knockouts to his credit (87.8% knockout rate), remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire undefeated, having won every fight in his professional career. Rocky Marciano (Septem– August 31, 1969), was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Watch Rocky Marciano win the Heavyweight Championship in 1952 Rocky Marciano landing a punch on Roland La Starza OK, that last one was fiction, but here is a short list of famous paisanos who held world championships. In fact, three of the most famous boxing movies were biographies of Italians: Rocky Graziano (Somebody Up There Likes Me), Jake LaMotta (Raging Bull), and Rocky Balboa (Rocky). Italians have gained great notoriety and fame in the boxing ring. The fighter competed in the heavyweight division.
Because, you know, he would have had enough food to eat and access to a weight room his entire life, which he did not have growing up where and when he did.The Greatest Italian-Americans in Boxing History Rocky Marciano is an American boxer, whose name was perpetuated thanks to the Rocky film series, starring Sylvester Stallone. He'd either be smaller and in a lower division or significantly bigger. He was an outlier even for his time in his size, but today he would be extremely unusual - even to the point that it seems extremely unlikely that if Rocky Marciano was born in the 90s and became a boxer, with the same personality and everything, that he would still be an 185 pound heavyweight. Now we can either assume that Marciano was lucky and that nobody else was as lucky as him, or that boxing records in general involve a lot of luck and sometimes the difference between a legend and an also-ran is smaller than it looks.Īnd the other aspect of it is that he wasn't a modern pro athlete, in terms of nutrition, muscle building, drugs, sports medicine, etc., - or even in terms of being recruited for a given sport at a young age because of his talent - and after he died is about when you start to see the transformation of the modern athlete. Even a bum who is fighting a heavyweight champion has at least a chance of landing a lucky punch - and 49 fights in only 8 years is more random chance than a modern heavyweight champ's promoters would let him subject himself to. Marciano was not like that and in hindsight on any given night there was always the possibility he was going to get clipped the wrong way and go down for the count. Fighters since him that have had comparable records have had nowhere near his level of risky aggression in their fighting styles and have generally been, by comparison, extremely patient and defensive, trying to minimize luck. No matter how good you are, you probably need a lot of luck to pull that off. Marciano was excellent, but the paradox with him is that he had a high-risk style, but was still undefeated as a professional.
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