Fighters who retired at the right time.

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Rocky as he was showing signs of age but would have lost his next fight.

Hagler sticking two fingers at the boxing world for not appreciating his greatness and leaving Leonard hanging.

Ricardo Lopez clears up his draw on his record to win and ride off into the sunset.

Rocky had 2 or 3 good fights left in him. Nino Valdez was scheduled for June/July 1956, and Rocky would have beaten him. Liston was in jail. Patterson was 20 years old. Who was left? Eddie Machen?

I read that his back injury was the reason why he retired at the time he did.

Yes I read the same thing a couple of times. I think Archie Moore ruined Marciano's back, because Archie Moore was probably the most skilled boxer that he ever faced and I believe he made Marciano miss 75% of his punches. Marciano threw 800 punches that night which were pretty much all power punches. If he missed 600 punches, it's no wonder that he threw out his back and ruined his back. If this is the case then Archie Moore ended Marciano's career.

I can believe it because I don't know how a guy can crouch down sideways like Marciano did for the entire fight throwing bomb after bomb after bomb with all his might and all his power behind it without completely destroying his back.