A rare Radio interview with Rocky Marciano (1956)

[Caractacus]

check out this record recording of an interview of the radio programme "Greatest Sports Thrill " with Harry Wismer from 1956.
(Rocky Marciano begins speaking at about 9: 00 into the clip )


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDHpywjM7c

[Caractacus]

Here is the flip side with interview with Welterweight and Middleweight Champion Carmine Basilio.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVdUS028jgc

[Caractacus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB054VSrK5k

[Tomasino]

Rocky always speaks so well and makes great points. Absolute legend.

[Caractacus]

he was offered One Million and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to fight Ingemar Johnasson for the Heavyweight Champioship,
man that must have been a sh*tload of money back in 1958.

[punchoutsb]

Rocky always speaks so well and makes great points. Absolute legend.

[evrenb]

he was offered One Million and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to fight Ingemar Johnasson for the Heavyweight Champioship,
man that must have been a sh*tload of money back in 1958.

Apparently £10,000,000 in today's money

[Caractacus]

he was offered One Million and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to fight Ingemar Johnasson for the Heavyweight Champioship,
man that must have been a sh*tload of money back in 1958.

Apparently £10,000,000 in today's money

1958 ?maybe the offer was to fight Floyd Patterson ?
and by the way 'today's money" buys you todays "sh*t"
other then technological devices the quality has gone down the crapper on just about everything else.
(i remember you could still buy a full sized candy bar for a nickle and comic books were still 12 cents as late as 1966.)

[Caractacus]

check out this record recording of an interview of the radio programme "Greatest Sports Thrill " with Harry Wismer from 1956.
(Rocky Marciano begins speaking at about 9: 00 into the clip )
(compare how the Rock sounds here to the way he speaks on the Moore vrs Harold Johnson clip at the other thread.
he sounds more polished here (IMOP)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDHpywjM7c

[Caractacus]

especially here,where he sounds more soft spoken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB054VSrK5k

[APerno]

check out this record recording of an interview of the radio programme "Greatest Sports Thrill " with Harry Wismer from 1956.
(Rocky Marciano begins speaking at about 9: 00 into the clip )


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDHpywjM7c

Barbarian

Do you know if the round 13 call was a 'live radio call' or just someone acting as though it was a live radio call? - Reason I ask: I am surprised to hear the announcer say "the punch only traveled eight inches." - While we all know that Marciano's eight inch punch is a famous part of prize fight lore, I a am quite surprised that the announcer would make that kind of an insightful remark while the KO was in progress - It seems to me, that is the kind of insightful remark that a newspaper writer or trainer comes up with the next day - but maybe the announcer was just that observant. - Do you know if it was a 'live call' or recreation?

[APerno]

he was offered One Million and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to fight Ingemar Johnasson for the Heavyweight Champioship,
man that must have been a sh*tload of money back in 1958.

Apparently £10,000,000 in today's money

1958 ?maybe the offer was to fight Floyd Patterson ?
and by the way 'today's money" buys you todays "sh*t"
other then technological devices the quality has gone down the crapper on just about everything else.
(i remember you could still buy a full sized candy bar for a nickle and comic books were still 12 cents as late as 1966.)

On the other side of it - I would rather have a crappy built smart phone than a well built (circa 1958) house phone.

[Caractacus]

I dont believe there was ever a live radio broadcast of the first Marciano vrs Walcott bout from Philadelphia,
most probably because it was one of the earliest closed-circuit television broadcasts (to 49 theaters and venues across the country,coast-to-coast)
and probably the biggest up to that point.
It sounds to me on that particular radio interview it was the interviewer Harry Wismer (who was a famous radio sportscaster in the 1940's),
re-creating the fight for effect for the show.
BTW he says the punch traveled "18" inches on it.

[Caractacus]

Sports columnist and radio and television broadcaster Bill Corum called it for the TNT closed-circuit television broadcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6OFd3I6oeo