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Rocky Marciano ( September 1 1923 – August 31 1969 ), born '''Rocco Francis Marchegiano''', was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956 . Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit (an 88% knockout rate), remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire without a defeat or a draw in his professional career. Early years Marciano, an Italian-American, was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts to Pierino and Pasqualena Marchegiano. Rocky had 3 sisters -- Alice, Concetta, and Elizabeth and 2 brothers - Louis and Peter. When he was one year old, he contracted Pneumonia , from which he almost died. As a youth, he played Baseball , worked out on homemade Weightlifting equipment, and used a stuffed mail bag that hung from a tree in his back yard as a Heavy Bag . He attended Brockton High School , where he played on the American Football and baseball teams. However, he was cut from the school baseball team because he had joined a church league, violating a school rule forbidding players from joining other teams. He later dropped out of school after finishing tenth grade. Marciano then worked as a chute man on delivery trucks for the Brockton Ice and Coal Company. He also worked as a ditch digger and as a shoe salesman. Rocky was also a resident of Hanson, Massachusetts where the house he lived in still stands on Main St. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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