Monday, October 12, 2009

Despite Threats Brockton Needs To Construct Statue For Rocky Marciano Derek Jeters an IconJim Rice is and Always was Nothing



Despite Threats, Brockton Needs To Construct Statue For Rocky Marciano40 years ago next Monday, former undefeated heavyweight champion of the world Rocky Marciano died instantly when a private plane that he was a passenger in struck a tree near a small airfield outside Newton, Iowa.Marciano, who remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career with an unblemished record of 49-0, was pronounced dead on the eve of his 46th birthday. Marciano, the son of immigrants from Italy, was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. “The Rock from Brockton,” who almost succumbed to a case of pneumonia when he was a toddler, is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.As a fitting tribute to the fighter that Ring Magazine

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