- Rocky Marciano
- Country of Citizenship America Place of birth: Brockton, Massachusetts
- Death August 31, 1969 (aged 45)
- Sportsboxing
Sports career
In the early years, he targeted baseball players, but after repeated setbacks, he finally gave up. Contact boxing in the third year of the military. The first professional boxing match in March 1947.
On October 26, 1951, he played against former world champion Joe Louis . The 37-year-old Joe Louise defended the world champion 25 times (the most in history). He is one of the greatest boxers in boxing history and Marciano’s childhood idol. This is his last match before retirement. However, Marciano won by knocking him out in the eighth round. This game made Marciano famous, but it also attracted a lot of criticism.
On September 23, 1952, he challenged the world champion for the first time, 38-year-old Jersey Joe Walcott . In the first round, Marciano was knocked down by Walcott once. This was followed by 12 consecutive rounds of winning matches. However, in the 13th round, his high-performance bomb-like violent right hook directly hit the champion's face, winning with a dramatic KO and winning the championship. This ultra-destructive right hook was named "Suzie Q" by posterity.
In the next year, he continued to successfully defend his title at the pace of two games. In September 1955, Marciano's sixth and final defending match was against Archie Moore , who won the 9th round with a KO. After winning, he left a famous saying: "The opponent to fight no longer exists." In April 1956, he announced his retirement.
life
It is also worth mentioning that the well-known boxing movie Rocky has nothing to do with the real-world legendary boxer Rocky, and it is not his biographical movie. However, his name happens to be mentioned in the movie.
At 8:50 pm on August 31, 1969, three hours before his 46th birthday, he retired and sat leisurely on a small plane with a few friends to go to a party. He plans to talk to a friend's son to cheer him up, but his old friends actually secretly prepared a surprise birthday party for him at the destination. However, he never was able to attend this party. At this moment, the plane made an emergency landing due to weather problems, and another error occurred during the emergency landing. Finally, it lost control and ran into a big oak tree, and the legendary person died.
