Is it true marciano did not want to fight an aging joe louis?

Question

from what i read and heard and seen in a movie on marciano rocky did not want to fight the aging louis he was rockys boyhood idol marciano was looking to fight former champion ezzard charles at this time charles had recently lost his title to walcott al weill made rocky fight louis telling him this will be the only you will get a chance to fight walcott

Answer 1

Yes and if you look it up Marciano fought c**p his entire career. He is highly overrated.

Answer 2

Yes it is true.  And afterward, Marciano openly wept in the locker room.  It was Louis that had to console Marciano when it was over.

Another interesting piece of info, the referee stopped the fight when Louis went down in the 8th round without giving a count.  The referee admitted he had so much respect for Louis that he wanted it to go in the record book at a TKO instead of a KO.

Answer 3

Yes it is true as you said Marciano had grown up with Joe Louis being his idol and he really didnt want to fight and beat up on his idol who was now only fighting to try and solve money problems and everybody could see was not the great fighter he once was. I think you can even pick up on this during the fight the Rock seems like he is willing the ref to stop it before he has to knock Louis down, it was a bad day for boxing really, a great champ like Louis being forced to try and raise money to pay taxes when he was well past his prime, hopefully this kind of thing could never happen nowadays.

Answer 4

What goes around comes around! Joe Louis beat James Braddock while he was old.

Answer 5

I've never believed that, I consider the whole "weeping in the locker-room" to be a media creation to prevent a backlash against Marciano for the way he bludgeoned Loius with his elbows, including one vicious shot right into Joe's nose.  It sure made Marciano look sympathetic, didn't it?  But he sure enjoyed working Louis over in the ring.   Marciano was a fighter, they enjoy hurting people, and that's what happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P__xBqPtD...

Larry Holmes backed off of Ali when he realized it was over for Muhammad...Marciano kept blasting away on Joe.