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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2011
- The Greatest Boxing Fights of All Time - Rocky Graziano vs Tony Zale in 1948
Thomas Rocco Barbella (January 1, 1919 - May 22, 1990), better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer who held the World Middleweight title.
Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on The Ring magazine list of the greatest punchers of all time. He fought many of the best middleweights of the era including Sugar Ray Robinson.
His turbulent and violent life story was the basis of the 1956 Oscar-winning drama film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography of the same title.
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1:43 Stallone stole that exact move in the movie "Rocky."
Thanks to everyone who said nice things about my grandfather Tony Zale
Seriously?
Tony Zale was a far superior fighter than Rocky Graziano.
@@frankieboombotz3403 graziano's record looks better, though.
@@lifelongbachelor3651 Tony Zale, head and shoulders above Rocky Graziano. No comparison.
The man of steel. Watching this bcuz of another trilogy about to happen. Fury v Wilder. It will go some way to beat zale v graziano
Rock’s more famous because of where he came from, the streets of New York. How glamorous to come back and win the middleweight title, they even made movies about it one starring Paul Newman if I recall. Rock’s career lasted ten years. Tony “the man of steel’s” career lasted an unbelievable eighteen years and he was from lowly Gary, Indiana.
I was a young kid in the early 1970’s when the Madison Square Garden had Zale vs Graziano and Willie Pep vs Sandy Sadler fight exhibitions. They were obviously old men by then and I don’t remember much else because it was so long ago (other than picking my brother’s brain about it)...part of an undercard, but we don’t remember the main event.
Today the referee would have stopped after the first knock down... if not before. Times have changed.
Not only that, even though Graziano was unconscious, the referee gave a full 10 count
Exactly. All the referee did was shake his gloves and push him back at Zale.
Yeah he was out on his feet. Refs in them days were absolute liabilities.
Yep back then they'd hung trump for treason. Nowadays they worship the bigmouth blowhard pathological liar dictator wannabe.
Tony Zale was a great fighter in an era of great middle and weitherweights
Ray Robinson being The greatest!
THOMAS ROCCO BARBELLA...
Stallone took the whole body language and movements from Graziano for ROCKY.
Last name too
This is brutal
Watching this battle, we can imagine how were the two first bouts between these warriors..
shame that there is no footage of these fights!!
There’s not?
@@tonyfuri9693 They fought three times. The first fight was, by far, the best of all. The testimonies agree that it was one of the most brutal struggles of all time. Unfortunately there is no recording of this fight. The video of the second fight exists, and it is very good, although not as exciting as the first.
Wow lol
@@nilo2604Why not post the link in your comments gumba? 😁
Crazy how the ref was still counting he was out cold
No defence, no footwork, just a bar room brawl with gloves
eh! eh!, bravo Zale, mi piace guardare ed immaginare quei tempi perchè magari immagino ci fosse ostilità ma veniva trascesa combattendo, invece in questi tempi ci siamo chiusi, mio zio mi ha detto che quando succedono questi momenti di profonda crisi si dividono le razze e ci si ritrae perchè non ci si fida del prossimo, dovremmo imparare a superare questi momenti, capire che ci stiamo dividendo, daltronde non credo che nessuno voglia il male del prossimo, si vuole essere soltanto rispettati e vivere in un discreto benessere, tutto qua.
eh! eh !, bravo Zale, I like to look and imagine those times because maybe I guess there was hostility but it was transcended by fighting, instead in these times we are closed, my uncle told me that when these moments of profound crisis happen, races are divided and we withdraw because we do not trust others, we should learn to overcome these moments, understand that we are dividing, on the other hand I do not think that anyone wants the evil of others, we only want to be respected and live in a decent well-being, that's al
Tony zale had a iron chin brutal punch and a pretty good defence
Happy Anniversary June 10 2022
Zale was a lot like Gene Tunney... good defense, very opportunistic... Rocky always went all-out trying to KO every opponent, he would leave himself open from time to time...
He was not like Tunney.
@@stanmonzon5788Oh really? Tell us more....Tunney was fake😁
Zale top 10 I've seen
I don't understand how a referee dosen't understand how badly a defenseless fighter can get hurt. He is obligated to protect the athletes . Some of these referees seemed oblivious to a man's well being and safety
It's called going out on your shield, an old warrior adage.
And you think the fighters were not oblivious to their own well being and safety by getting in the ring? In those days, the referee was only there to see that rules were followed, not to protect the fighters. The fighters had to protect themselves. How many should have stayed down (as Graziano should have), rather than subject themselves to more punishment, but chose to continue?
Older generations was built very different. These guys had jobs that was life threatening when they was 6, working mines and in chimneys. These generations was cut from a different cloth entirely.
How long was Graziano champ,and what years? What was his record?
A long time
They let a guy take too much punishment back in those days. It was a much more brutal event than today. Rocky’s brains were scrambled in later years, sadly.
Not really! On Johnny Carson at 59 was fine
@richwiz2, So are yours! 😁
And I'm not kidding
Zale was nothing like Tunney his defence was not that good same with his foot work what made Zale great was his toughness and his ability to take a punch
Zale was more of boxer-puncher like Dempsey.
Show their second fight
They don’t have the footage
that ref must've had money on Rocky
Take away the betting aspect. Who would care of outcome
Should've stopped the fight @ 1:30. Referees back then were terrible. Those fighters took a lot of unnecessary punishment
Standards and knowledge have changed since then. The ref did his job. He wasn't terrible for the current day standards. Nowadays yeah he'd be crucified for having the Rock stand up after a knockdown like that or even for giving him a count when he was out like that on the mat.
I'm proud of such talented and hardworking Polish guys in the US.
Italian*
@@yentamoon1808 You find Zaleski Italian???
Zale gave up his peak years to WW2, but still a great champion.
tony zale hit hard as fuck!
Zale's "Favorite Combination" should have been outlawed!
Referee 😂😂
Tony Zale ifs working Rocky like a robot.Rocky knock out cold.
Zale was holding Rocky's head down by the back of his neck. That's cheating & against the rules. The ref said nothing. That's a fixed fight.😢
This inspired Rocky the movie
no.
@@Amilakasun1tell us more😊
Polish fighter 🤜💪👍🇵🇱🤍❤️
Zale was actually better than Ali. Tony had way better body shots. Ali was just a tag-playing, foot-shuffling head-hunter.
Kinda like your mom😁
Stupid, rude, tasteless witless on your part. At least make it funny and fitting. That was cringey. @@mikevaldez7684
back when white people were tough...
+Ken Michaels Most of the tough boxers in the world are white, to this day.
+George Havenhand Actually the very toughest men usually have Italian heritage. (I am not Italian BTW) but it is known within the medical profession that a small percentage of Italians have a gene mutation which results in exceptional pain threshold, to my knowledge this doesn't occur in any other lines.
MrDavidhillman Italians are white David
Indeed, I think thats plain to see.
i dont know about that im german irish and english i got a pretty big pain threshold also was involved with combat sports my whole life as a youngin did karate as i got older i was in mma for like 6 months we had a boxing coach too but would come on specific days but i fell in love with boxing so i did that for like 4 years now i kinda just self train never wanted to actually fight though chances of blowing up are slim to none ive met people who are like 30 and theyre punch drunk stupid now i just went for the sparring and training but even in sparring u get tagged pretty good had some decent shiners lol
id like to see either of them fight a bjj fighter in the street lol rocky and zale would be choked out in 20 seconds
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