Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
December
8, 2003
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt,
Germany, April 16, 1969: Former heavyweight boxing champion
Rocky Marciano "strikes" a pose during an interview. Marciano, who
retired in 1956 after winning all 49 of his fights (all but six by knockouts),
was starting an 11-day tour of GI clubs in Germany. "We try to make it
informal," he said. "We show films of some of my fights, and I talk
to the fellows about how boxing was in the early 50s and how it is today. Sort
of an audience-participation, chit-chat, fun thing."