The real life "Rocky"'s

[AntonioMartin]

I was thinking how many famous boxing Rocky's are there?

(As a sidenote, a young myself used to think the Colorado Rockies were named after Rocky Balboa, it did not occur to me at the time that they were named after the Rocky Mountains instead, and I wondered what other team would be their "Apollo", their "Clubber" and their "Drago",... ....an even younger version of me, at age 8 or 9, knew of an airline named Rocky Mountain Airways, and I thought then that the mountains were too named after Rocky so the airline was in my mind, also indirectly named after Rocky Balboa :)

So anyways, here is the list I came with. First, the most obvious three:
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Graziano
Rocky Lockridge

Then:
Rocky Castellani
Rocky Rivero
Rocky Mattioli
Rocky Ramon
Rocky Fratto
Rocky Duran (before he became Manos de Piedra)
Rocky Valdes
Rocky Garcia (he fought Salvador Sanchez for the world title, went the distance too!)
Rocky Galletari (or something like that, from Australia)
Rocky Kalinga
Rocky Kansas

Any other Rocky's to add to that list???

[margaret thatcher]

Hasim Rockyman

Rocky Martinez

Rocky Fielding

[AntonioMartin]

Hasim Rockyman

Rocky Martinez

At Rockyman!
And afaik there are 2 Rocky Martinezes! (one Mexican and one Puerto Rican!)

[AntonioMartin]

I just saw Rocky Bentley...

At least he was brave enough to get in that ring, though....

[Fray Bentos]

Rocky Kelly!

[Controversial]

Here are 825 of them....

https://boxrec.com/en/search?p%5Bfirst_ ... Dir%5D=ASC

https://boxrec.com/en/search?p%5Bfirst_ ... Dir%5D=ASC

[Noxy]

Rocky McGran

[AntonioMartin]

Here are 825 of them....

https://boxrec.com/en/search?p%5Bfirst_ ... Dir%5D=ASC

https://boxrec.com/en/search?p%5Bfirst_ ... Dir%5D=ASC

Holy cow...

And I just saw that Marciano is not the only undefeated Rocky in history...Rocky Blundell won his only fight in 1987 down under in Australia... also, Rocky Sekorski...

[scartissue]

I remember a fighter named Rocky Mosley Jr. He was a decent enough fighter, held some decent wins and some peripheral titles. But the name Rocky always suggests a bruiser and believe me, he was no bruiser. Calling him Rocky is akin to calling Herol Graham 'Bomber'. It just doesn't fit. However, in this case, his real name was Roxell, so the next step of course, is Rocky.

[Caractacus]

"Two-Ton" Tony Galento fought Joe Louis for the undisputed HW Title in 1939.
Ron Stander "The Bluffs Butcher" (his day job)
who fought Joe Frazier for the undisputed world title.

[f read]

I have a good friend who lives in Luzerne Pa. I go visit him once in a while. It is a 3 hour drive so the visits are few and far between. Anyway this is Rocky Castellani country. Rocky Castellani was a top rated middleweight in the 1950s. I remember him more for being a judge and also owning a club in Atlantic City NJ called Rockys. Anyway there is a statute of him in the town and i told my friend i would bet some people around here probably do not even know who he was. I have several pictures taken in front of it and he was one who just fell short of being a world champion. That was the era of only one world title in 8 weight divisions and the fighters fought often remained active and many great just fell short of being a world champion.

[bollocks]

I was thinking how many famous boxing Rocky's are there?

(As a sidenote, a young myself used to think the Colorado Rockies were named after Rocky Balboa, it did not occur to me at the time that they were named after the Rocky Mountains instead, and I wondered what other team would be their "Apollo", their "Clubber" and their "Drago",... ....an even younger version of me, at age 8 or 9, knew of an airline named Rocky Mountain Airways, and I thought then that the mountains were too named after Rocky so the airline was in my mind, also indirectly named after Rocky Balboa :)

So anyways, here is the list I came with. First, the most obvious three:
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Graziano
Rocky Lockridge

Then:
Rocky Castellani
Rocky Rivero
Rocky Mattioli
Rocky Ramon
Rocky Fratto
Rocky Duran (before he became Manos de Piedra)
Rocky Valdes
Rocky Garcia (he fought Salvador Sanchez for the world title, went the distance too!)
Rocky Galletari (or something like that, from Australia)
Rocky Kalinga
Rocky Kansas

Any other Rocky's to add to that list???

Rocky Gattelari

[goose 5]

I seen to recall Mustafa Hamsho using the name Rocky Estafire in the 70's.

[AntonioMartin]

I seen to recall Mustafa Hamsho using the name Rocky Estafire in the 70's.

Yeah that's right! Estafire sounded funny to me as a Spanish speaking person who was a child those days..sounds like it's on fire...or like estafa, which means fraud..

[AntonioMartin]

I have a good friend who lives in Luzerne Pa. I go visit him once in a while. It is a 3 hour drive so the visits are few and far between. Anyway this is Rocky Castellani country. Rocky Castellani was a top rated middleweight in the 1950s. I remember him more for being a judge and also owning a club in Atlantic City NJ called Rockys. Anyway there is a statute of him in the town and i told my friend i would bet some people around here probably do not even know who he was. I have several pictures taken in front of it and he was one who just fell short of being a world champion. That was the era of only one world title in 8 weight divisions and the fighters fought often remained active and many great just fell short of being a world champion.

I remember him too although I wasnt born when he was a boxer. He only lacked power IIRC. One of my favorite non-champions and a respected judge in my younger days!

[cannonball]

Rocky Sekorski, journeyman HW of 80s/90s. Stopped by comeback Foreman, lost decisions to Dokes, Rodriguez. TKO'd past it Leon Spinks

[IKSRTFO]

Rocky Juarez

[f read]

Jaime Rocky Balboa fought Chavez and Meldrick Taylor a real warrior i recall. He was not destined to be a world champion but a good solid fringe contender.

[f read]

Rocky Sekorski, journeyman HW of 80s/90s. Stopped by comeback Foreman, lost decisions to Dokes, Rodriguez. TKO'd past it Leon Spinks

I seen him lose a decision to Michael Dokes on the December 9 1988 Holyfield-Pinklon Thomas undercard.

[Caractacus]

IT STILL HAS that mid to late "1970's" vibe still in the early 1980's.(November 1982)

[orbtastic]

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/421191

8184 in the database if you search "Rocky"

Some of them started their careers in 1921. Wonder who the oldest/first was?

[Caractacus]

if this didnt inspire "Rocky" dont know what did.
the big difference it didn't go the difference
and was not hyped by the media and shown on closed-circuit theatres.

[Caractacus]

Suppose Slyvester Stallone had orginally caled his charactor "Tony" Balboa ?
would it have been as much as a box office success ?

[Caractacus]

Two examples of a "One Round" Rocky(s) ?
( they didn't try and 'go the distance" but instead tried to shoot their "wadd" all in the first round)

[Caractacus]

The pre-fight "Build-Up"
Thursday February 27.1975


Wednesday March.12.1975