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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.