LaStarza vs Marciano 1

Your conspiracy theory is false as not all fights were filmed and/or saved in that era.

 

Let me authentic your post regarding what my father Louis "Sonny" Marciano wrote in the biography. Full disclosure my father was the number one source for the book "Biography of the First Son" and although young I was present for many of the sessions between my father and the man the author Everette Skeehan. The recount of the plane flight is absolutely correct and we heard about this incident long before the book came out. Secondly ROCKY knew no fear he was devoid of the emotion so when you say this may have been a constructed persona absolutely not evidenced by what many know ans to which you alluded to: ROCKY was the only boxer known to have deep sleeps/naps before bouts including those on the GRANDEST STAGES in the most famed arenas and stadiums the world over. You can't fake that. That's nerves of a car burglar. Nerves of a daredevil (Evil Knieval) cliff diver. Look it up, had they possess different hard wire then the rest. Lastly to touch on something you said in the beginning. A tad buzzarre. Most MEN that ascend to high positions, lofty accomplishments could be considered "off" in comparison to your generic MAN. That's the norm. Like the daredevil personality I mentioned above MEN of high accomplishment are different otherwise they would just be common. In closing I'll provide one parallel example although I could name 100's. Michael Jordan....ok I'll add one more because his nuttiness was overt.... Tiger Woods.

 

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True but and I don't like being cliche but styles make fights so you can't always say this guy had trouble with this guy but this other guy didn't so this guy will beat that guy.

ROCKY was still learning on the job and the first fight with Rollie ROCKY was coming off the Vingo fight at the same arena MSG. Also LaStarza being the total opposite of Vingo. A stylist mover, avoider.... tuff style for sure. Rolie fight two ROCKY was coming off for him a long layoff so it took him time too loosen up and as others on this thread have said it was the only time ROCKY took emotions into the ring which was also responsible for the slow start however once he warmed up the massacre was on. He slaughtered Rollie. Rollie fought 9 more toned with wins over guys with bad records and loosing his final fight by UD to a guy with a 16-18 and 4 record.

 

I was remiss in not mentioning your point on "A little comment" made by Rollie about ROCKY. The comment about ROCKY winding up "punch drunk was in no way a harmless innocuous comment as ROCKY MARCIANO took such things very seriously. He did not find cognatjve brain damage to be funny in any way and I can tell you that first hand. ROCKY was complex as mentioned within this thread and he had opinions and thoughts that seemed to be in contrast such as posssing killer instinct yet simultaneously being severely bothered by the results most boxers showed from taking punches. ROCKY would whack guys in the ribs in subsequent years that thought such things were funny. So now "BRAIN DAMAGE" was an off limits subject to joke about and the college educated Rollie learned this fact the hard way.

 

Yep, Rocky was not good for his oppenent s health.

 

Hi, The most recent book on Marciano by mike Stanton disclosed new information about Rockys army record during the war. Specifically the incident involving Rocky and a fellow Soldier James Murphy in Wales. This was previously kept quiet.

With details not coming out before Rockys death, no version exists from Marciano himself to answer what Major Richard L. Powell had said about him.

Because his version of the events in Wales are not available, Did your Father ever hear Rockys own account of this?

 

Can you elaborate on this ‘incident’? I have no idea what you’re referring to and a lot of others probably don’t.

 

It’s in Mike Stanton’s book.

“Rocco Marchegiano spent the closing months of World War II, not in battle, not ferrying supplies to Allied troops in Normandy as was widely reported in later years, but in a military stockade in England. He was imprisoned after being arrested, court-martialed, and found guilty of robbery and assault. While an investigation of the incident was underway, Marchegiano's commanding officer, Major Richard L. Powell, told investigators that Marchegiano was an "untrustworthy, unreliable and unsatisfactory soldier" and that "his derelictions have been consistent and numerous." Powell concluded that Marchegiano was "of no value to the Army."

here’s an article by Tom Houser about the “new ground” on Marciano.


https://www.sportingnews.com/us/amp...marciano-biography/1isbxgtqjfa321xa6gc27gvbx8