Boxing legend Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash near Newton in 1969 — one of three Marciano family connections to Iowa. Marciano was the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion from 1952 until he ...

CYNTHIA SWEENEY [email protected] May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 It was estimated the entire town of 1,400 lined the streets and rooftops to see boxing champion Rocky Marciano ride into town in the ...

Retired heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano was the guest speaker at the Old Time Boxer Association dinner in Wilkes-Barre in 1958. Pictured, from left: Rev. Michael Holly, Jim McCarthy, Marciano, ...

The World Boxing Council will honor undefeated former world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano in the hometown of his birth in Brockton, Massachusetts on September 28. The WBC announced that a statue ...

Rocky Marciano said goodbye to the ring on this date in 1956 when he retired at age 31 as the undefeated heavyweight champion. He finished his boxing career with a 49-0 record that included six title ...

After a year hiatus, the Rocky Marciano Tournament of Champions is stepping back into the ring. The premier south of Boston boxing event wasn't held last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but returns ...

Rocky Marciano’s childhood home on Dover Street has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, honoring the late boxing legend’s legacy. The designation was announced on Saturday, ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Boxing legend Rocky Marciano is coming to the big screen in his first authorized biopic. Sign up here. The film will follow Marciano from childhood in blue-collar ...

The World Boxing Council has unanimously approved the project to build a statue in honor of undefeated world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. The decision was made on the eve of the pre-eminent ...

In Brockton, Mass., size does matter. Host Jacki Lyden talks us through the controversy surrounding the size of a proposed Rocky Marciano statue to commemorate the hometown prize fighter. That was the ...

ONE OF the most compelling things about a boxing match is that when a puncher is in the ring, a fight really is never over ...

BROCKTON — For a "wax museum" school project, 9-year-old Zelly Perez studied hometown hero Rocky Marciano. She even played him in class, complete with an embroidered boxing robe her mom got on Amazon.