Search results
Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on The Ring magazine list of the greatest punchers of all time.
May 18, 2024 · Rocky Graziano (born January 1, 1919, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 22, 1990, New York) was an American boxer and world middleweight champion (1947–48).
Rocky Graziano was a former middleweight champion and one of boxing's most colorful characters.
May 23, 1990 · Rocky Graziano, the former middleweight boxing champion whose life was turned into a movie, died of cardiopulmonary failure last night at New York Hospital. He was 71 years old.
World Middleweight title. On February 7, 1947, the NYSAC revoked Graziano's boxing license and threatened to bar him for life for his failure to report two $100, 000 bribe offers. The NBA, which controlled boxing virtually everywhere in the U.S. outside of New York, did not recognize NYSAC's decision.
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."
Rocky Graziano was born on 1 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Teenage Millionaire (1961) and Tony Rome (1967).
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.
Dec 15, 2020 · A crude puncher and true street fighter, Graziano mauled his opponents with a tireless attack and potent right hand. His ability to take a punch was legendary; opponents ultimately withered as they tried to stop a man who appeared made of rock.
- www.upi.com
- › UPI Archives
May 22, 1990 · NEW YORK -- Rocky Graziano, who rose from a troubled childhood in New York's slums to become an enormously popular middleweight boxing champion and later a television personality, died Tuesday...
Related searches
