Rocky Marciano vs Sugar Ray Robinson
PAT MURPHY: Rocky Marciano wasn’t an elegant fighter. With him, it was all about brute force, relentless aggression, and destructive punching power
Tag: Boxing
The 1960 Olympics were spectacular in more ways than one
PAT MURPHY: Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Peter Snell and Herb Elliott were the brightest stars in Rome (PREMIUM)
Floyd Patterson: the boxer who came back
PAT MURPHY: Written off as a hopeless case, he brought a ruthless, coiled fury to the ring, taking back the world championship
How Gene Tunney brought down a boxing legend and an era
PAT MURPHY: He beat Jack Dempsey twice to become heavyweight champion – and his staid personal style foreshadowed the end of the Roaring ’20s
Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s
PAT MURPHY: The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth
