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2 days ago · Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922. The first Ring world title belt was awarded to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and the second was awarded to flyweight champion Pancho Villa. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in the 1990s ...
5 days ago · Another Brooklyn boy, Rocky Graziano, was the epitome of the comeback kid. His life before boxing was a whirlwind of poverty and trouble, leading to stints in reform school and prison. But in the ring, he found redemption.
- Bren Gray
4 days ago · Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, and Rocky Graziano are all names that land on our list of the greatest boxers of the 1940s. This list of boxing greats includes boxing champions like Willie Pep, Manuel Ortiz, and Sal Bartolo who all fought in the decade that World War II broke out in.
4 days ago · Having heard that middleweight world boxing champion Rocky Graziano trained at the Stillman’s gym in Midtown Manhattan, Brando began showing up to train with the boxer. Graziano wrote of Brando’s abilities in his autobiography Somebody Up There Likes Me , “He looked like he might have been a fair fighter once, but he was in bad condition for the ring now and his punch looked slow.”
5 days ago · The middleweight division has been graced by some of boxing’s biggest stars and some of the most talented fighters the sport has seen. The division is capable of delivering highlight reel knockouts to fans, but still keeping the speed and skill the heavier weight classes sometimes lack.
2 days ago · Rocky Graziano And Tony Zale Had The Match Of The Year In 1947. This was the second fight between Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale. The first was won by Zale by knockout in the sixth round.
4 days ago · Brando based his portrayal of Kowalski on the boxer Rocky Graziano, whom he had studied at a local gymnasium. Graziano did not know who Brando was, but attended the production with tickets provided by the young man.
