the darker side of rocky marciano....

Very well said,Turpin

 

cheers steve.

 

Skehan graphically wrote about how Rocky's brother sucker punched him during an exhibition in Maine, and how he lost his temper, spitting out blood as the tongue came out, then tearing into his poor stupid sibling, screaming for his life as he fell forward into a preserving clinch: "Rock! I'm your brother! ROCK!" Whereupon Rocky regained some control of his anger and
eased off a bit. Skehan's descriptions of the warning signs when Marciano lost his temper are among the most vivid accounts in the book.

 

reg gutteridge said that rocky borrowed a rain coat and did not return it. He also delibratly turned up in shabby clothes for tv apearances so that tv exec's were forced to fit him out in new clothes- or borrow a jacket he would delibratly not return. micky duff said that rocky grabbed him by the tie and made like to hit him when marciano realised he had to pay his own way home after an apearance duff had organised. Only the threat of legal action calmed rocky down...

hardly sinful stuff...

there is more evidence he was a good guy than bad.

 

I'm laughing now, but I'd be horrified if I were the victim of this.

Please tell me that Peter is the brother who was assaulted. Peter makes Rocky sound like an Angel with no flaws. "My brother was a saint. There's no human being alive who could ever beat my brother. You can only go by records, and the last time I checked, Rocky Marciano was 49-0, 43 wins by Knockout."

 

The final assesment must be that he was one of the better human beings of all the heavyweight champions.

As others have said he became a miser later in life. I am 99% certain that hye would be diagnosed with Obsesive Compulsive Disorder today.

 

I recall this from the book, except I don't remember a cheap shot... just that his brother Sonny started to do well and hit Rocky with a real good shot and made him look bad for a second. That got Marciano mad... when he was mad his tongue curled through the space of his teeth apparently that's what you had to watch out for. You could see it in his fight with LaStarza.

 

He was a true con artist.


Tricked all sports writers and boxing associates into thinking he was a lucky journeyman waiting to be shut out the next time he fought. Did it ninety-four times.

 

hes was mafia connected

 

Can you name a fighter who wasn't back then?

 

This was more so after his career.

 

My dad was sitting with Marciano and George raft at one of the Cooper Ali fights. He said the pair of them were more worried about their toupees blowing off than watching the fight.

 

I haven't read it in decades, just recall that he wanted to show what he could do when he loaded up, and caught an unawares Rocky with a shot that may not have connected at all in a competitive situation.

Whichever recall is correct (and it may well be yours that is more accurate, for "Biography of a First Son" was loaned to me, and thus not in my library) thank you for independently corroborating the tongue curling gesture, an expression nobody wanted to have directed their way.

LaStarza really pissed him off with the comment that he was likely to become punchy later in life.

 

Here is Rocky showing his anger as he knocks LaStarza through the ropes:

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