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Rocky Graziano was the middleweight champion for 11 months during the late forties, but his three wars with Tony Zale plus his winning personality have contributed to making the Rock...
ONE OF the most popular fighters of any era, Rocky Graziano was an adored champion until the day he died. Graziano, whose real name was Thomas Rocco Barbella, was a troubled youth growing up on the gritty Lower East Side of Manhattan. It can be said that boxing saved his life.
Most papers billed Graziano as Tommy Graziano, although Brooklyn Daily Eagle referred to him as Rocky Graziano ©BoxRec is the official record keeper for 410 sports authorities worldwide, it is not under direct control of any single authority.
Jan 18, 2016 · For the role, Brando decided to secretly study the famous New York tough guy with the hoodlum backstory, middleweight Rocky Graziano, and began training and hanging around Stillman’s on Eighth...
Dec 15, 2020 · Fighters who stepped within reach of Rocky “Rockaby” Graziano knew they were entering a punishing no man’s land. Graziano wasn’t in the business of backing down, as he set out to destroy the opposition with explosive, sledgehammer punches.
Feb 23, 2020 · Rocky Graziano, is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, having the capacity to take any of his opponents out with a single punch. Sugar Ray Robinson , who fought Graziano in 1952, said, "No one ever hit me harder than Rocky."
May 23, 1990 · Rocky Graziano, 71, the former middleweight boxing champion whose fractured grammar and gruff good nature helped make him a popular show business figure, died May 22 in New York Hospital....
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