Ray Robinson vs Randy TurpIn II ( Rocky Marciano calling the fight)

[Mars_ax]

Yup you heard it right, Marciano calling this fight, check it out, classic footage.

[marbleheadmaui]

LOVE this stuff!

Marciano and Mountain Rivera pre-fight!

Turpin has that classic Falling Step technique with both his jab and lead right.
I counted 25 clean landing blows by Robinson while Turpin was on the ropes and the guy stayed up. Tough, tough guy.

[Mars_ax]

LOVE this stuff!

Marciano and Mountain Rivera pre-fight!

Turpin has that classic Falling Step technique with both his jab and lead right.
I counted 25 clean landing blows by Robinson while Turpin was on the ropes and the guy stayed up. Tough, tough guy.

Turpin was a damn good fighter, he'd won the 1st fight and I believe he was on his way to winning the 2nd fight until Robinson got cut, and turned it up a couple notches to get him out of there.

Marciano seemed to be pulling for the Brit, Turpin during the fight, which I thought was rather strange.

Robinson's record going into the 2nd Turpin fight was ~> 128-2-2, and besides Turpin in their 1st fight, Robinson's only other loss was to Jake Lamotta. Robinson was also around 30-31 years old and still in his prime for the 2 fights with Turpin, so Turpin deserves tons of credit for hangin' tough with one of the greats of all-time.

[Andre]

Rocky talks like and even looks a bit like Tony Soprano.

Dont know if Rocky was barracking for Turpin or just talking honestly.
I think Rocky is just showing his compassionate side saying "Oh this is murder I feel like jumping in there to help Turpin myself". He wanted the fight stopped way before the Ref did, it was upsetting him.

[Fenster]

Hilarious. You guys do realise Rocky wasn't actually calling this fight live, right? He was reading from a script after the fight happened. lol.

[Mars_ax]

Hilarious. You guys do realise Rocky wasn't actually calling this fight live, right? He was reading from a script after the fight happened. lol.

Yes Fenster, we knew that, I hope this helps.

[marbleheadmaui]

Hilarious. You guys do realise Rocky wasn't actually calling this fight live, right? He was reading from a script after the fight happened. lol.

Nooooo, really? You mean like all the other replayed fights Rocky used to host in his days as heavyweight king?

Who knew?

Chowderhead.

[marbleheadmaui]

LOVE this stuff!

Marciano and Mountain Rivera pre-fight!

Turpin has that classic Falling Step technique with both his jab and lead right.
I counted 25 clean landing blows by Robinson while Turpin was on the ropes and the guy stayed up. Tough, tough guy.

Turpin was a damn good fighter, he'd won the 1st fight and I believe he was on his way to winning the 2nd fight until Robinson got cut, and turned it up a couple notches to get him out of there.

Marciano seemed to be pulling for the Brit, Turpin during the fight, which I thought was rather strange.

Robinson's record going into the 2nd Turpin fight was ~> 128-2-2, and besides Turpin in their 1st fight, Robinson's only other loss was to Jake Lamotta. Robinson was also around 30-31 years old and still in his prime for the 2 fights with Turpin, so Turpin deserves tons of credit for hangin' tough with one of the greats of all-time.

I didn't think it was strange. The Rock rooted for the more basic fighter...the guy like him.