Decades before Rocky Balboa was running the streets of Philly, boxing's original Rocky was running the streets of Brockton and training to one day become the heavyweight champion of the world. Known ...

You don’t need to be a fan of boxing to enjoy the new biography of heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano by veteran journalist and University of Connecticut professor Mike Stanton. “Unbeaten” (Henry ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Stanton profiles the pride of Brockton, heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano, in his biography Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World. Pulitzer Prize ...

From the 1910s to the 1950s, baseball and boxing ruled the sports world. Both sports were thoroughly democratic: In the ring, Rex Layne fought Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Graziano took on Tony Zale. As ...

Rocky Marciano’s rise through the heavyweight boxing ranks included a stop in Hartford, where he dispatched one of the countless “stumblebums” and “ham-donnies” used to beef up his record before the ...

Once second in popularity only to baseball, boxing has lost appeal since the glory days of Muhammad Ali; football, basketball, hockey, soccer and even auto racing, depending on the survey, have all ...

Sullivan, a business writer and owner of a corporate education company, offers a solid if unspectacular biography of the only undefeated heavyweight champion in history. He recounts Marciano's career ...