Did Marciano Have the Flu when he Fought Henri & Applegate?

1951-04-30

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Willis Applegate

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Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA W UD 10 10
referee: Dolly Searle
This was a bruising, crowd-pleasing battle. Marciano won handily enough but failed to even knock down his opponent, who had fought only twice in the previous two years. Applegate's best round was the third, which the referee also took from Marciano because of a low punch. Red landed plenty of good punches, typically in the early parts of rounds, but Marciano almost always came back later to take the play away. Marciano's best round was the sixth. The attendance was 4167 and the gross gate was $7,6l6.

1951-03-26

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Art Henri

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Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA W TKO 9 10
time: 2:51 | referee: Dolly Searle
Henri frequently outfought Marciano with left hooks in the first three rounds, and landed four nifty uppercuts at close range in round three. Marciano hurt him with a two-handed attack in the fourth round and Art did not land much after that, although defending himself cleverly. The fight became one-sided and uninteresting. Marciano dropped Henri for two nine-counts in the ninth and the referee stopped it. Marciano was slow, sluggish, and cumbersome, and made one of his poorest showings. Attendance was 4386 and the gross gate was $8285.


Was Rocky fighting with a mystery virus/ full of penicillin/ flu/ etc when he had these two fights? Is that the reason he did not score one punch kos over two opponents whose records were:

Applegate 11-14-2

Henri 13-15-1

 

37,38,39.

 

Naturally.

 

Fanboys gonna worship.

 

Sam Silverman who promoted a lot of his early fights said he could have as much trouble with a journeyman as a top fighter.:good