Marciano Rocky. The greatest boxers. Biography and interesting facts from life

Marciano Rocky Was born in the US state of Massachusetts on September 1, 1923. His family had many children, and his father was an invalid who emigrated from Italy in search of happiness. Life extremely hard brought up a fearless little boy - an Italian by blood, who was absolutely indifferent to the pain. In order not to freeze during the severe winter cold, the teenager worked: a snow-picker, a dishwasher, a digger, laid gas pipelines, was an auxiliary worker. Marciano Rocky possessed tremendous physical strength and was an excellent baseball player. He was rightly considered an ideal pitcher, until one day he broke his arm, as a result of which the career of a baseball player, of course, had to be forgotten, as this injury proved incompatible with the required throw in this sport. In the same period of time, local boxing coach Jean Cajano invited the guy to his club to start training in boxing, having seen in it a good makings.

The beginning of the boxing track

Caught in 1943 in the fleet off the coast of Europe, Rocky once in one of the British pubs severely punished the local cocky guy, for which the owner of the drinking establishment made the American offer to fight at the end of the week, but for money. For this it was necessary to take part in all favorite fisticuffs. It was they who started the development of the young sailor as a boxer. Entering the battle with the local cool guys, Marciano began to hone his technique on them. However, it turned out that he has problems in battles with tall guys, since Rocky himself, with a mass of 86 kg, had a growth of only 180 cm. In connection with this, the clever sailor began using low inclines and dives, due to which he managed to become elusive For their more dimensional opponents. Any blow by Rocky Marciano was deadly. And all because he, in addition to his natural data, also had stubbornness, which manifested itself in regular training. It is also worth noting the ability of the boxer to turn his shortcomings into advantages. In particular, Rocky deliberately paid special attention to short strokes for near-field combat. As a result, the future champion resembled a fighting dog who was tormenting his victim - without pity and to the finish.

Professional career

Rocky Marciano, whose fights with time will firmly enter the classic boxing genre, held a relatively small sporting life. In many respects this is due to the fact that members of his family forced him to leave the ring, who were very worried that any fight could be fatal for their beloved person. Although life showed in the end: the finish line for the legend was not any of the rivals in the ring, but about this a little later.

Marciano Rocchi conducted a lot of battles at the professional level, the total number of which was 49. Of these, 43 times a guy with an Italian pedigree was able to knock out his opponents. In this case, Marciano did not have any defeats and no one at all. In many respects it was connected with the fact that he was not just leading a healthy lifestyle: he was literally an ascetic, able to be content with little in everything that concerned everyday life.

The first serious fight

A real test of strength for Rocky was in 1951 already quite old, but still extremely dangerous Joe Louis. Yes, the black athlete was not already at the peak of the form, but he could still ask a good bashing absolutely any young fighter. And in the first rounds it turned out. However, after a short period of time, Marciano sweeping left swing sent Louis to a well-deserved pension, forcing all the skeptics and ranchers to close their mouths and begin to realize that a new and very bright star that has just begun its journey has caught fire on the boxing sky.

Also among the notorious vis-a-vis boxer Rocky Marciano had a lot of superstars of that time. A special sensation was caused by his fight in September 1952 with current at that time champion in the heavyweight category of Jersey Joe Walcott. At the beginning of the fight, Rocky seemed to be almost blind and could not oppose the vis-a-vis, but after several rounds, when the vision was restored, he literally wiped the champion's powder, and in the 13th round sent him to the canvas ring. After such a carnage, despite the coveted victory, the newly-made leader of heavy weight for two weeks could not go out on the street - to the point his face was mutilated.

Feats in the ring

A phenomenal battle can be called the battle of Marciano with Ezard Charles. During the fight, Rocky suffered a severe injury - a rupture of nostrils, but he did not just stand it, but he could literally "mow" his opponent by knocking.

Human qualities

On the sincerity and kindness of Marciano Rocca can be judged from one very vivid episode, which as a kind of litmus paper made this famous man manifest himself. After the battle, Rocky Vingi Carmino, who was severely knocked out, was taken to the hospital, where he spent two days without regaining consciousness. All this time, Marciano stayed in the medical institution next to the injured boxer, and after his coming to consciousness gave him all his money earned for the fight. And anyway, no matter how often American journalists of that era tried to denigrate the great athlete, he was and still is the personification of masculinity, perseverance, decency and kindness in ordinary life. He was never caught in doping, he was not involved in criminal trials, categorically did not tolerate alcohol and tobacco products. For many of the boys, Rocky is a pattern, an idol, on which many teenagers in the Italian neighborhoods were leveled and aligned throughout the American continent.

On the brink of defeat

This is now, many readers may get the impression that Marciano was some kind of invulnerable god. In fact, there was one fight in his career, which he could lose, but he was recognized as the best. It happened in 1950 during a fight with Ronaldo Lastarso. The battle went through to the end, and the judges recognized the winner of our hero.

Who is stronger?

Rocky Marciano against Muhammad Ali is a battle of the century! In reality this fight was never, however much we would like it. This is explained quite simply. When the young Ali was just beginning to take his first steps in boxing, Marciano had already completed his career. At the time of the departure of Rocky from the sport, Ali was only 14 years old, so it becomes clear that all those videos that "walk" through the expanses of the Internet where Ali allegedly beats with Rocky are nothing more than professional video editing that was created for Additional warm-up of the public and attracting attention.

Elegance? Thank you!

Boxing Rocky Marciano Never treated a refined style. He was often reproached for the rather clumsy conduct of the battle. But, anyway, in sports the most important is the final result, and this gladiator of the ring was just impressive. Still, the absence of defeats indicates that Marciano did everything in battle correctly, albeit not so often technically, as someone would like.

Features of training

Rocky Marciano, whose growth, as mentioned above, was not significant for his weight class, developed a unique method of training short shots, which is still used today. It was he who thought up putting short hooks and uppercuts in the water. And he did it every day for two hours. It was thanks to this crazy work and dedication that Marciano was able to achieve a fantastic result - 83% of the knockouts. Rocky went into the ring with respect to the opponent, which manifested itself in the fact that his physical condition was always optimal, you can even say perfect. His overall physical tone, multiplied by the qualitative understanding of boxing as an art, ensured him fame and success. The only significant shortcoming of Rocky can be considered his flaws in the defense. After all his battles, he was injured, the extent of which was different.

Sunset undefeated

Statistics of the battles of Rocky Marciano says that he went down in history the second after the Jin Tunney heavyweight champion who had no defeats at the time of retirement. Many argue that the initiators of the end of his career Rocky was his family. And as you know, for a true Italian, the family is the most valuable thing that can be in his life. Perhaps, the boxer himself was tired, because his career was rich in hard tests. But there are no places for speculation, and the facts say that on April 27, 1956, the athlete declared publicly about the end of his performances in the ring. Subsequently, he was fully realized both as a family man and as a businessman. It seemed that Ms. Luck herself had kissed him. But it was not so.

Farewell, Rocky!

To great regret, Marciano was not destined to live a long life. On the last day of the summer of 1969, the light-engine personal plane Rocky suddenly fell in a corn field near the town of Newton. Charismatic and charming champion, the idol of millions, one of the founders of the world boxing did not live literally one day before his forty-sixth birthday, suddenly and tragically leaving our world. But such an outcome did not prevent him from forever staying in our hearts.