The Famous Knockout: Marciano KO's Walcott When he began climbing the heavyweight world, boxing needed something, or rather, someone, the ring had found itself orphaned of a figure capable of igniting hearts and from Massachusetts, that fire was coming, he had an Italian name, a hard jaw, and a right hand that seemed like an anvil.
Rocco Francis Marchegiano aka Rocky Marciano, son of an Abruzzese immigrant father and a Beneventan mother, entered arenas with the step of someone who didn't feel like a star, but someone who still had to earn everything, he didn't talk much, he didn't dodge gracefully, but advanced like someone aiming for the target but not the pretty move and hit, Christ, did he hit.
They called him "The Rock" but his right hand had a name all its own: Suzie Q, one shot, and the curtain fell.
In '51 he ended the comeback dreams of Joseph Louis Barrow aka Joe Louis, knocking him down at Madison Square Garden, then he demolished everyone else.
Philadelphia, September 23, 1952, the title at stake is the heavyweight one, and the reigning champion is Jersey Joe Walcott, on the ring experience against instinct, technique against pressure.
Rocky is undefeated, but he's still considered rough, raw, almost an amateur, to use Walcott’s own words.
The match starts badly for him: he goes down in the first round, for the first time in his career, it’s a "surgical" left that sends him to the canvas, against the will of his corner he gets up at 4 and doesn’t give up.
Walcott boxes well, very well, frustrating, technical, elegant, Marciano seems a step behind, but he has only one idea in his head: close the distance, work, wear down and as the rounds go by, the pace changes, Walcott starts to slow down, Marciano doesn’t.
In the 13th round, Rocky knows he’s behind on points and so does his corner, if he wants to win, he has to do it now, no strategy, no calculations, just that right hand, that "Suzie Q" that has broken bones and ambitions of dozens of opponents, 43 seconds pass, Walcott tries a left feint and exposes himself, Marciano pins him with one of the most devastating blows in boxing history, “Suzie Q” launches, sharp, dry, and sinks into the jaw, the champion bends over, and while almost unconscious, Rocky hits him with a left hook, slowing him down at the last second, realizing what he has done, he restrains himself, not out of pity, but respect.
Clean K.O., Marciano is the new world champion!
Walcott, upon awakening, would say only: “I don’t remember anything, I don’t know if it was a right or a left, I just know that, suddenly, ‘bang’ and it was over.”
That day boxing was never the same again, a new king was born, one who never tasted defeat fighting 49 times, never losing, one who left everything in the ring, even himself. suo: illo: testa: soltanto:
Rocco Francis Marchegiano aka Rocky Marciano, son of an Abruzzese immigrant father and a Beneventan mother, entered arenas with the step of someone who didn't feel like a star, but someone who still had to earn everything, he didn't talk much, he didn't dodge gracefully, but advanced like someone aiming for the target but not the pretty move and hit, Christ, did he hit.
They called him "The Rock" but his right hand had a name all its own: Suzie Q, one shot, and the curtain fell.
In '51 he ended the comeback dreams of Joseph Louis Barrow aka Joe Louis, knocking him down at Madison Square Garden, then he demolished everyone else.
Philadelphia, September 23, 1952, the title at stake is the heavyweight one, and the reigning champion is Jersey Joe Walcott, on the ring experience against instinct, technique against pressure.
Rocky is undefeated, but he's still considered rough, raw, almost an amateur, to use Walcott’s own words.
The match starts badly for him: he goes down in the first round, for the first time in his career, it’s a "surgical" left that sends him to the canvas, against the will of his corner he gets up at 4 and doesn’t give up.
Walcott boxes well, very well, frustrating, technical, elegant, Marciano seems a step behind, but he has only one idea in his head: close the distance, work, wear down and as the rounds go by, the pace changes, Walcott starts to slow down, Marciano doesn’t.
In the 13th round, Rocky knows he’s behind on points and so does his corner, if he wants to win, he has to do it now, no strategy, no calculations, just that right hand, that "Suzie Q" that has broken bones and ambitions of dozens of opponents, 43 seconds pass, Walcott tries a left feint and exposes himself, Marciano pins him with one of the most devastating blows in boxing history, “Suzie Q” launches, sharp, dry, and sinks into the jaw, the champion bends over, and while almost unconscious, Rocky hits him with a left hook, slowing him down at the last second, realizing what he has done, he restrains himself, not out of pity, but respect.
Clean K.O., Marciano is the new world champion!
Walcott, upon awakening, would say only: “I don’t remember anything, I don’t know if it was a right or a left, I just know that, suddenly, ‘bang’ and it was over.”
That day boxing was never the same again, a new king was born, one who never tasted defeat fighting 49 times, never losing, one who left everything in the ring, even himself. suo: illo: testa: soltanto:
Stanlio
30 may
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