Great New Rocky Marciano Black and White Highlight Clips Now on YouTube
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent
Hey heavyweight boxing fight fans! There’s a great black and white boxing clip on YouTube which has the best of the best footage on Rocky Marciano from the fight years 1955 and previous. The clip contains black and white footage shown on ESPN set to peaceful background music. Rocky is gone but definitely not forgotten.
Six minute Marciano clip is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7zuh1E1PgA
An eight minute Rocky Marciano career black and white photo montage set to various Rocky Balboa movie theme music is also on YouTube and can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LdvsnXe2B8
A rare newly rediscovered 1966 Rocky Marciano Australian interview by Lon Casey is now available on YouTube. Rocky gives a detailed evaluation of ‘Cassius Clay’ and his movement in getting away from punches. At this point in the game, Rocky evaluates Muhammad Ali, including the two Liston fights, as a question mark. “It’s gonna take a good opponent to find out how good Cassius Clay is.”
Rocky’s Australian interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFUJ3KDjrlI
Rocky talks about his low stance to come in close at short range and overcome reach disadvantage, and how he used his style to effectiveness against Joe Louis. Rocky also talked about the urge to come back against Ingemar Johansson after he knocked out Floyd Patterson, and his failed private attempt to comeback. Rocky, anticipating Clay’s induction into the United States Army for Vietnam service (Ali never went, citing his religious views, in a case which went to the United States supreme Court). mentions he would have enjoyed a fight with Cassius Clay, comparing him in style as close to Joe Louis. “He (Clay) could possible be a great fighter, only time for tell. He brought a lot of life in the beginning to boxing. He over did it when he brought his religion into boxing (and now) he’s sort of bad for boxing.” This interview precedes the famed two version computer fight with Muhammad Ali in 1968, released after Rocky’s death in a plane crash in 1969.
Rare black and white four minute training footage of Rocky Marciano on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsGIq0t6YY Nice gentle background music here
I like the black and white footage best because it correctly captures the flavor of the heavyweight champion during his era and in his reign. Unlike the various biographies on Marciano, I like these newly discovered posted clips because they don’t drag the point. Rather, these rare black and white footage clips of Marciano are short, sweet, and to the evaluation historical point.
History may forget Rocky Marciano, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis because the new breed of heavyweights are of a bigger breed than those of Rocky’s era and those preceding him, going back to John L. Sullivan, James Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Sam Langford, Max Baer, Young Stribling III, Max Schmeling, and so on. The above cited black and white video clips do Marciano’s memory justice, and are worth being discovered by fight fans today.
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