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...Super Fight The Vegas odds for next week's "Super Fight" are 6-5, bettors' choice. Muhammad AH (né Cassius Clay) says that he is going to put Rocky Marciano away in the fifth round. Ring Magazine Editor Nat Fleischer likes the Rock. Ali v. Marciano? Didn't Rocky die last year in a plane crash? Well, yes -but not before he had finished filming a simulated fight with Ali. The fight between boxing's only two undefeated heavyweight champs will be shown for the first and supposedly the only time...
...This time, to improve on the old radio show, Woroner paid the flesh-and-blood boxers to act the bout out before cameras. Marciano, who had been retired for 14 years, trained off 53 Ibs. and was fitted with a toupee. He and Muhammad Ali pounded away for three days, faking every contingency that could occur in a fight. Then the film editor cut and spliced the footage to match the computer script. Some sequences were still missing, and the boxers were brought back for two more days of shooting...
Died. Armand ("Al") Weill, 75, controversial prizefight matchmaker and manager who guided Rocky Marciano to the world's heavyweight title; of heart disease; in Miami. Of all the boxing figures of the '30s and '40s, few were more hated than the conniving, cigar-chewing Weill, who often used his matchmaking jobs to further the careers of fighters he managed. He had four world champions over the years, ending with Marciano, whom he picked up as an unknown in 1948 and secretly handled until 1952, when he became the Brockton Blockbuster's official manager...
Died. Rocky Marciano, 45, the "Brockton Blockbuster," former world heavyweight champion and one of the prize ring's alltime greats; in the crash of a light plane; near Des Moines. The son of a Brockton, Mass., factory worker, Marciano wanted to be a professional baseball player but lacked the whiplash arm for that game. His chunky muscles were perfect for boxing, though, and what he lacked in finesse he more than made up in battering-ram power. After turning pro in 1947, he piled up 42 straight victories, most of them by knockouts, before earning a title bout with...
...saloon in Bellflower, Calif. He fought anyway, lost a split decision and ended up in a cast with three cracked vertebrae. Nonetheless, he went into the Frazier bout with only two losses in 37 fights; he was billed by his followers as the first great white hope since Rocky Marciano. "Screw white hopes," Quarry snapped. "I'm a fighter...