Marciano- interesting stuff

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  1. BillB

    BillB Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Here's a great article on Rocky Marciano.

    One of the best I've seen.


    Here are a few things I learned from it.

    *Rocky was offered $2 million to fight Ali in the '60s. He turned it down.

    *He was offered a substantial sum of money to throw the fight with Don Cockell, in which he was a 10-1 favorite.
    He went into a rage at the Mob representative who made the offer.

    *Marciano never did business with the Mob, but he hung around them quite a bit after he retired. He was a particular friend of Vito Genevese.



    Rocky's stinginess was legendary and bordered on nuttiness.

    *He carried slugs and trip wires around with him to use on pay phones.

    *He ate in restaurants a lot, but he never paid. If it wasn't complimentary or someone else wasn't buying, he wouldn't eat there. The same with staying at hotels.


    *One trick he pulled often: if he was scheduled to speak at an event (always paid, of course), he would arrive at the airport wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He would claim something had happened to his baggage, and the event people would have to buy him clothes.


    *He insisted on being paid in cash and would stash it in curtain rods, toilets, light fixtures etc.
    It was estimated that when he died, he had $2 million hidden across the country that was never found.

    * There is a lot about his womanizing. There was a lot of it. I'll let you read it.




    http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/rocky-marciano-revisited--part-two
     
  2. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Isn't someone supposed to chime in "pure class" about now?
     
  3. DaveK

    DaveK Vicious & Malicious Full Member

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    Pure class...
     
  4. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    Great Article. Orgies? Vibrators? I bet Rocky was an animal in the bedroom like he was in the ring...non stop motorboat LOL


    Bruce Trampler is a complete moron
     
  5. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    If you lived in the 1960s and Rocky invited you to participate in one of his orgies with hott brazilian sluts, what would you say?
     
  6. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Should I bring dip?
     
  7. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    Hauser is basically just repeatedly quoting from Sullivan's book about Rocky here. I didn't read far but the article just seems tacky.
     
  8. brnxhands

    brnxhands Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    some of those things don't add up... lot of bs in there
     
  9. Manassa

    Manassa - banned

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    I might ring Hauser and tell him Marciano once threw a kitten at my grandfather, it'll turn up in one of his articles.
     
  10. FastHands(beeb)

    FastHands(beeb) Well-Known Member Full Member

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    A character assasination article about a great fighter who's no longer around to defend himself against these allegations - why can't the guy be left to rest in peace? Disgraceful.

    Look at it another way; as Sinatra once said - "any 2 bit hooker can say anything about anybody".
     
  11. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    There was an article like this in SI a while back...
     
  12. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Class act