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Marciano and 28
Their first child, Joseph Marciano Armstrong, who was born on February 28, 1995, plays drums in a Berkeley-based band named Emily's Army.

Marciano and faced
Moore is the only man to have faced both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali.
The anonymous person stated that he had got a request on his internet video channel to show information that Ricardo Lopez, Lennox Lewis, Joe Calzaghe, Rocky Marciano and Khaosai Galaxy defeated everyone they faced.

Marciano and World
Rocky Marciano ( born Rocco Francis Marchegiano ; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956.
He lay motionless long after he had been counted out and Marciano became the new World Heavyweight Champion.
Then came two consecutive bouts against former World Heavyweight Champion and light heavyweight legend, Ezzard Charles, 33, who became the only man to ever last fifteen rounds against Marciano.
A bronze statue of Marciano was planned for a 2009 completion date in his hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts, to be a gift to the city by the World Boxing Council.
The official unveiling of the statue is set for September 23, 2012, which is the 60th anniversary of Marciano winning the World Heavyweight title.
The title was left vacant by Marciano, but Moore lost to Floyd Patterson by a knockout in five ( Patterson, yet another future Hall of Famer, himself made history that night, becoming, at the age of 21, the youngest World Heavyweight Champion yet, a record he would hold until 1986 ).
* August 31 – death of Rocky Marciano ( 45 ), Italian-American World Heavyweight boxing champion, in an air crash
* September 21 – In New York City, Rocky Marciano knocks out the light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore in the 9th round to retain his World Heavyweight Championship belt.
* September 17 in New York City, Rocky Marciano retained his World Heavyweight title with an 8th round knockout of Ezzard Charles
* September 24 in New York City – Rocky Marciano retains his World Heavyweight title with a TKO over Roland La Starza in the 11th round.
* September 23 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rocky Marciano knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
* August 31 – World champion boxer Rocky Marciano dies when the privately owned Cessna 172 in which he is a passenger strikes a tree and crashes while its inexperienced pilot is attempting to land at night in bad weather at a small airfield outside Newton, Iowa.
The feud came to an end on July 5, when Ultra / ZERO defeated the Wild Cards in the semifinals of the 2003 Tag World Grand Prix, after which Kingston and Marciano moved on to feuding with Team F. I. S. T.

Marciano and Heavyweight
* April 27 – Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without losing a professional boxing match.
Marciano considered a comeback in 1959 when Ingemar Johansson won the Heavyweight Championship from Floyd Patterson on June 26, 1959.
In 1971, Nat Fleischer, perhaps boxing's most famous historian and also editor and founder of Ring magazine, named Marciano as the all-time 10th greatest Heavyweight Champion.
In December 1962, a Ring magazine poll of 40 boxing experts had Jack Dempsey rated the # 1 Heavyweight of all time, with Joe Louis 2nd, Jack Johnson 3rd and Marciano 7th.
In 1998, Ring named Marciano as the 6th greatest Heavyweight Champion ever.
On September 21, 1955, Moore went up in weight to face future Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano for Marciano's Heavyweight Championship.
At one point, the oldest boxer to win the World's Light Heavyweight Championship, he is believed to have been the only boxer who boxed professionally in the eras of Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali.
By 1963 Duva had become close friends with former world Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, one of the people who rejoiced when Duva crowned his first world boxing champion, Middleweight Joey Giardello, who dethroned Dick Tiger that year to become world Middleweight champion.
* April 27-Rocky Marciano retires as the only undefeated Heavyweight Champion of the world with a perfect record ( 49-0 ).
* September 23-Rocky Marciano becomes world Heavyweight champion, with what many have referred to as the greatest punch in boxing history, knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in thirteen rounds, at Philadelphia.
* May 15-Rocky Marciano knocks out Jersey Joe Walcott in the first round, of their Heavyweight Title Re-match.
* September 24-In a rematch fight, Rocky Marciano retains his world Heavyweight title with an eleventh round knockout win over Roland La Starza, New York.
* June 17-World Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano defeats former champion Ezzard Charles, who was attempting to become the first boxer in history to recover the world Heavyweight title, by a fifteen round unanimous decision, at New York.

Marciano and Champion
Then, Marciano met British and European Champion, Don Cockell.

Marciano and Jersey
* 1952-Rocky Marciano KO 13 Jersey Joe Walcott I
Jersey Joe Walcott the oldest heavyweight champion ( until George Foreman regained the title in 1994 ), Archie Moore broke the all-time knockout record as well as the record for the oldest champion, at 48, for any division, Ezzard Charles proved to be a reliable substitute for Joe Louis as heavyweight champ, and Floyd Patterson emerged as the youngest heavyweight champion in history ( coincidentally, he beat Moore for the title left vacant by Marciano ).
Undefeated Rocky Marciano knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott at the stadium in 1952 to win boxing's heavyweight championship.
Duilio Spagnolo ( c. 1927-April 15, 2005 ) was an Italian boxer who was a Heavyweight contender during the Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott and Rocky Marciano eras.
Moore initially trained alongside BlackJack Marciano and Jigsaw under Kevin Knight at the Independent Wrestling Federation in Woodland Park, New Jersey ( formerly West Paterson ).
David Marciano ( born January 7, 1960, in Newark, New Jersey ) is an American actor best known for his role in the FX police drama The Shield as Detective Steve Billings.

Marciano and Joe
In the barbershop scenes, Murphy and Hall play elderly barbers Clarence and Morris, who engage in furious debate with Saul, the old Jewish man ( played by Murphy ), about the boxing skills of Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Rocky Marciano.
Johnson was part of the " Legends Pack " with Jack Dempsey, Floyd Patterson, Joe Louis, and Rocky Marciano.
Some of the boxers featured on the magazine covers have included Andrew Golota, Salvador Sánchez, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bud Taylor, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Mauro Mina, and Ricardo Mayorga.
Among those to have been recognized by the WBC as world champions were the Undefeated Rocky Marciano ( 49-0 ), Roy Jones, Jr., Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Julio César Chávez, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, Salvador Sánchez, Héctor Camacho, Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzón, Roberto Durán, Juan Laporte, Félix Trinidad, Edwin Rosario, Bernard Hopkins, Alexis Argüello, Nigel Benn, Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko, Erik Morales, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Marciano also attempted to console Louis, saying, " I'm sorry, Joe.
* In the 1988 movie Coming to America, Eddie Murphy's character Clarence states that Frank Sinatra once told him that Joe Louis was 137 years old, supposedly his age when he lost to Rocky Marciano.
On Oct. 27, 1951, the 28-year-old, Marciano, took on the 37-year-old, Joe Louis.
As of 2009 apart from Marciano only Michael Loewe, Pichit Sitbangprachan, Harry Simon, Sven Ottke and Joe Calzaghe retired with a perfect record containing neither defeats nor draws.
On the bootleg tapes of The Beatles in session in 1965 recording Think For Yourself, John Lennon can be heard reflecting and joking about a meeting he had with Marciano, in which Marciano talked about Joe Louis.
* Lieutenant Joe Marciano played by James Luisi
Many famous people trained there, mainly boxers: Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier, Primo Carnera, Fred Apostoli, Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano were some of the famous world champions who trained at Stillman's Gym.
The book has chapters for each of the decades that comprised the 20th century, with special pages dedicated to Jack Johnson, Jimmy Wilde, Benny Leonard, Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker, Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Durán, Sugar Ray Leonard, Barry McGuigan and Mike Tyson.
Among the clients who took Atlas ' course were Max Baer, heavyweight boxing champion from 1934 to 1935, Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champion from 1952 to 1956 and Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.

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