rocky graziano.. for real or protected?

rocky was a blown up welter who seemed protected by his management team(ie not fighting the best at the times there were)was he the real deal and a true champion, or just a one shot wonder who happenened to get three great fights out of zale of which he loses two? why didnt he step up and fight the black murderers rows fighters like lamotta(who beat most of them)? or robinson earlier in their carreers and a number of other tremendeous fighters of his era, before he got to zale?

 

id like some feedback on this if anyone has any info please respond. was rocky graziano the real deal? he only fought robinson once ,both towards the tail ends of thier carreers while lamotta fought srr 6 times .why didnt the rock and srr get it on earlierr in thier carreers,they were much closer in weight than srr and lamotta?

 

lost to zale 2 x ,lost to srr, lost to green 2x, drew 1x with janiro and barely stopped him (i personally dont think the ref should have stopped it) cought fusari(while losing the whole fight) for a late ko.cochrane and davis not top notchers(tough good fighters but not the cream of the crop) so what top guys was he beating to be so good?

 

graziano weighed 152 and servo weighed 144.5 graziano clearly had the edge. so what made the rock so special he didnt do anything spectacular except catch billy arnold who was kicking his ass and zale ,who beat him up 2xs. was he protected or for real?i just think he had a great right hand and was a tough son of a gun but he wasnt an atg fighter.

 

just checked out his record at box rec he had 83 bouts won 67 .33 of those wins were against opponents with losing records and i mean records like 3-34 1-21, 11-46 ,4-22 ,7-21,6-26,0-6, 4-27,5-21 and the list goes on(with records like that they are not top notchers). hardley sounds like he was fighting the cream of the crop sounds like he was protected and not fighting the quality fighters of his era like lamotta who had 102 fights and lost 19. he would fight anybody anytime.unlike graziano his opponents with losing records was only against 12 fighters with losing records. (hey its early give or take a few on both guys)i love the rock and was always wondering why he didnt take on the type of fighters lamotta did.and just want to klnow if he was kept away from certain fighters. in lamottas book jake states that he took out a lot of guys the rock didnt want to fight so he did.