marciano v moore, has anyone seen the unedited rocky knock down?

There is no edited version. Marciano gets up and walks to the ropes for a second and then turns and gets his gloves wiped and ready for action. I have the fight from two different commentators. Moore was just sour and always a salesman about things. This is something he just kept lauding about. Moore claims that the ref pulled Rocky's gloves toward him to shake him up. It's really a pretty baseless claim.

 

Yeah, but I think he really must have believed it because he was extremely bitter about it and even supposedly told Foreman that he regretted holding such a grudge with the ref when the ref passed away. Something like that anyway.

 

He probably believed it. As an athlete, he probably convinced himself. Don't underestimate the power of denial. He just got beat.

That was on Marciano's ringside. Foreman was like "See. We where there!"

 

Never heard that little story before. Like the avatar by the way.

 

This isn't the official version. Clearly a highlight version. You can see the ref approach Marciano to wipe his gloves off. I have 2 versions, none which show the replay and than the fight. A replay in the middle of a fight should indicate it's probably not an official version.

 

I guess it was Archie moment to shine. It was a well timed and powerful punch with all of Archie lower body into it,and Rocky was a bit off balance but Rocky jumped up pretty fresh and ready and did not appear the least bit shakey. It was all down hill for Archie after that point but Archie also showed a lot of heart and he did so after a dreadful beating. The heavyweight championship (only one per division)

 

The knockdown was not edit in the theater film, the Marciano commantary is other story. But Rocky was cutting spots out for his 20 min tv show at the time, so stuff had to be left out.


No fast count or edit in the theater version. Espn airs the theater version from time to time, the only edit I notice there is the 9th round final knockdown.

 

Was the round edited? the best way to know for sure is to time it yourself. If you come out with 2 minutes and 30 seconds instead of three minutes, something was edited out of your film.

Boxing films have been edited before. I do not believe Marciano got a long count vs. Moore, but there's not doubt Marciano was sloppy, and even became arm weary at one point of the fight.

 

Yes, no doubt. I took it he was arm weary when he never stopped throwing punches.

At least Vitali throws punches but always looks tired with his mouth gaping. It's like he doesn't know how to breathe.

 

I have the fight which doesn't edit this part out. I have 2 versions of this fight. It's not rare at all. There is no long count. This is myth based on nothing, not even exaggeration (Like Cooper talking about Ali getting a new glove when he really got only 5 seconds extra).

Should I upload it to prove it? I don't really feel like it...