" It was feared, particularly among those who had witnessed Marciano's punching power first hand, that Louis's unwillingness to quit would result in serious injury.

In his youth, he played baseball with his brother Peter a. k. a Sonny and David Rooslet ( a neighborhood friend of Marciano's ), worked out on homemade weightlifting equipment ( later in his life, Marciano was also a client of Charles Atlas ) and used a stuffed mail bag that hung from a tree in his back yard as a heavy bag.

Marciano's amateur record was 8 – 4.

Marciano's last title bout was against 38 year old, Archie Moore, on September 21, 1955.

It was Marciano's sixth and last title defense before retiring in 1956.

Duva was one of the last persons that Marciano spoke to before Marciano's plane crashed in 1969.

Going into the fight, Michalczewski was positioned to tie Rocky Marciano's all-time record of 49 wins and no losses.

5 ' 11 ), stoop shouldered, balding, clumsy heavyweight, with inordinately short arms ( Marciano's reach was the shortest of any heavyweight champion at 69 inches ).

Marciano's defense was particularly deceiving.

However Marciano's camp cancelled the upcoming bout when Marciano's hand was injured in training.

In 2006, an ESPN poll voted Marciano's 1952 championship bout against Walcott as the greatest knockout ever.

If Holmes had been victorious against Spinks, he would have tied Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0.

When the fight began, Archie learned that, due to the angle of Marciano's crouch, he could hit Marciano with a hook only if he placed himself in position to be hit by Marciano.

But it is universally acknowledged that Goldman did a masterful job in bringing out these assets to Marciano's greatest advantage, and refining his style to make the fighter the best he could be.

Holmes won his first forty-eight professional bouts, almost matching Rocky Marciano's streak of 49 straight wins, including victories over Ken Norton, Muhammad Ali, Gerry Cooney, and Marvis Frazier.

The next day, Rocky and Robert take a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Rocky gives his son Rocky Marciano's cuff-link, given to him years ago as a gift from Mickey.

The ring announcer in Providence, Rhode Island could not pronounce Marchegiano, so Marciano's handler, Al Weill, suggested they create a pseudonym.

Walcott dropped Marciano in the first round and steadily built a points lead ; but in the thirteenth, Walcott used his trademark feint to set up his right hand, but Marciano's " Suzie Q " landed first.

A bronze statue of Marciano has been erected in Ripa Teatina, Italy, to celebrate the birthplace of Marciano's father.

* Check-Six. com – The Crash of Rocky Marciano's Cessna plane

On September 21, 1955, Moore went up in weight to face future Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano for Marciano's Heavyweight Championship.

She also took part in two of Paul Marciano's Guess campaigns in 2000.

He also sought to turn Marciano's shortcomings into advantages.

Goldman tied Marciano's ankles together with a string to teach him to spread his feet at the appropriate width.

A student orator `` produced tears from a great number of the learned '' even before the punch was served.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

The notch could be made with a scissors, knife, hole punch, or " disk notcher " tool that was specifically designed for this task.

Above the control panel was the system's standard input / output solution, a punch tape reader and writer.

The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, and often replaced with a modified Friden Flexowriter, which also contained its own punch tape system.

While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee, they did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals ( such as card punch machines ) to ship with its System / 360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC.

") Regardless of whether the joke teller was female or male, a portion of the fence would swing up and hit them on the rear end after the punch line was delivered.

It was a general-purpose programmable computer, employing punch cards for input and a steam engine for power, using the positions of gears and shafts to represent numbers.

Computer programming in the punch card era was centered in the " computer center ".

The Menke / Morgan punch was beginning to come alive, and the team was responding to Walker's management style.

They suggest that the additional step of using the punch to create a mould that could be reused many times was not taken until twenty years later, in the 1470s.

Finally, the city of Mainz was sacked in 1462, driving many ( including a number of printers and punch cutters ) into exile.

Japan won by 2 – 1: Tadashi Nakamura and Akio Fujihira both KOed opponents by punch while Kenji Kurosaki was KOed by elbow.

* Bolo punch – a combination of a wide uppercut / right cross / swing that was delivered seemingly from the floor.

Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as punch card park in that institution's Bicentennial Park, a landscape literally designed to resemble a punched card, supposedly based on Lin's memories of their early use in universities.

Above the control panel was the system's standard input / output solution, a punch tape reader and writer.

A typical PDP-1 operating procedure was to output text to punched paper tape using the PDP-1's " high speed " ( 60 character per second ) Teletype model BRPE punch, then to hand carry the tape to a Flexowriter for offline printing.

Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls ( 1880s ), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator ( used in the 1890 United States census ), a distant precursor of the modern computer.

As explained by Pocket Books editor Margaret Clark, it was decided to scale back the number of books published not due to low sales or lack of interest in the prequel series, but due to the fact that the televised series often conflicted with planned literary plotlines, or beat the book series to the punch entirely.

Lecour felt that he was at a disadvantage, only using his hands to bat his opponent's fists away, rather than to punch.

Sweet tea was once consumed as a punch mixed with hard liquour with flavorings of mint and cream, with mint julep being a close version of the punch drink with its similar ingredients.

Beginning in 2009, a kick or punch that makes contact with the opponent's hogu ( the body guard that functions as a scoring target ) scores one point ; if a kick to the hogu involved a technique that includes fully turning the attacking competitor's body, so that the back is fully exposed to the targeted competitor during execution of the technique ( spinning kick ), an additional point is awarded ; a kick to the head scores three points ; as of October 2010 an additional point is awarded if a turning kick was used to execute this attack.