Word: marciano
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...strong, but so is Frazier. No amount of bluster is likely to deter Smokin' Joe, a raging, bobbing, weaving, rolling swarmer who moves in one basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away with such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook...
...Rocky Marciano v. Archie Moore...
...slow, brick-like frame of Cooper. He is the only person I've ever met who really had faith in an athlete. Sure, people have bet fortunes on one man or another, but they bet on statistics. They are people who believe the computer that said Marciano beat Clay. This drunk was prepared to bet on faith alone; he believed in Cooper, and would still believe after the mercurial odds-makers went away...
...athletics and all sports, Italian-Americans stand out. The late Rocky Marciano, undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, and a native of Brockton, comes to mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...
...They had fought, by that time, the equivalent of 70 rounds, and on several occasions got carried away and forgot to pull their punches. "You couldn't put those two together without them testing each other," says Woroner. Ali bloodied Marciano's nose (just as the computer said he would). At another point, when his arms were covered with welts and felt heavy as scrap iron, Muhammad retreated to his corner and refused to come out again until Woroner paid him an extra $2,000 in cash. (Ali's original deal was $10,000, plus a piece...