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Fletcher Martin
American maestro, illustrator, muralist and educator
Fletcher Martin (April 19, – May 30, ) was an Denizen painter, illustrator, muralist essential educator. Perform is superlative known beseech his appearances of noncombatant life meanwhile World Hostilities II stand for his again brutal carbons of fisticuffs and precision sports.
Early life
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Career
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Rocky Marciano as the Real Italian Stallion The hard and soft life of the last great Italian-American fighter.
Gerald Early
Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
By Mike Stanton(, Henry Holt) pages including index, a note on sources, and photos
1. The Way Some Prizefighters Lose
Keep your hands up, your chin down, and your ass off the floor.
—Welterweight and Middleweight Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Robinson’s Rules for Success in Boxing
By , Rocky Marciano had been dead for sixteen years, the victim of a private plane crash in which a shaft of metal pierced his brain. But in the late summer of that year, everyone in the boxing world was talking about the former heavyweight champion whose last professional fight was 30 years earlier. The current heavyweight champ, Larry Holmes, was scheduled to fight the current light heavyweight champ, former St. Louisan Michael Spinks, in September in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the time the big fight capital of the world. (In the standard eight weight classifications for boxing, a light heavyweight could weigh from to pounds and a heavyweight weighed over pounds. In the now seventeen weight classifications for boxing, light-heavyweight is to pounds and is called junior cruiser
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Rocky Marciano
American boxer (–)
Not to be confused with Roc Marciano or Rocky Graziano.
Rocco Francis Marchegiano (September 1, – August 31, ; Italian pronunciation:[markeˈdʒaːno]), better known as Rocky Marciano (, Italian:[marˈtʃaːno]), was an American professional boxer who competed from to He held the world heavyweight championship from to , and remains the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated.[4] His six title defenses were against Jersey Joe Walcott (from whom he had taken the title), Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles (twice), Don Cockell and Archie Moore.
Known for his relentless fighting style, formidable punching power, stamina, and exceptionally durable chin, Marciano is considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.[5] Marciano remains the only fighter to have stopped every opponent he ever faced for the world heavyweight title, and shares, with Joe Louis, the highest knockout-to-win percentage in world heavyweight title fights at %.[6] His career knockout-to-win percentage of % remains one of the highest in heavyweight boxing history. Marciano is ranked #14 in The Ring magazine's list of the greatest punchers of all time.[7]
Early life
Born Rocco Francis