Word: marciano
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...general contractor by profession, Rawson was internationally known in the world of boxing, coaching the Burmese Olympic boxing team in 1972 at the Munich Games and also coaching boxing legend Rocky Marciano. Rawson also refereed boxing for over three decades and served as Massachusetts’ boxing commissioner...
...actually coached Rocky Marciano as an amateur. Although many remember Marciano's 49-0 professional record with 43 knockouts, Rawson still goes back to one fight Rocky lost...
Jesse Hernandez, 49, the other pro who runs the school, shouts, "Let's go!" and his students beef into the ring to practice flying off the ropes like drunken sailors. "I broke two ribs my second class," says Marciano Mendiola, 29, who works with the mentally disturbed by day and seems to feel right at home with these classmates. One of them, Raymond ("Hurricane") Marcus, 18, got a $1,500 scholarship to the School of Hard Knocks. "He's part Soboba Indian, and the reservation gives out education grants," says his mother Sherri. "Jesse and Bill had to send letters...