Rocky Marciano remembered

Stanley Ketchel, the middleweight champion whom they called the Michigan Assassin, was shot and killed in Conway Missouri, sixty years ago. When Wilson Mizner, the writer, heard about it, he said “Start counting ten over him. He'll get up.” Mizner's words come back now because of an anniversary that has just passed. It was a year ago that Rocky Marciano went down with a private plane in Iowa. It is still hard to believe that he didn't get up. Rocky was by no means the most skillful of boxers and may, indeed, have been the crudest operator ever to win the heavyweight championship. Primo Carnera would crowd him for that distinction, though, and it would be difficult for anybody who saw Joe Louis to regard Rocky as the greatest fighter of our time, no matter what the records say. The records make Rocky the best. In forty nine fights, nobody held him to a draw and only six opponents finished on their feet. Only one other heavyweight champion could show comparable fi

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