BROCKTON — For a "wax museum" school project, 9-year-old Zelly Perez studied hometown hero Rocky Marciano. She even played him in class, complete with an embroidered boxing robe her mom got on Amazon.

BROCKTON - Even though city pride and the statue of his father is on the line, the son of Brockton native and undefeated heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano supports a bet made by the mayor over the ...

The movie about undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano is being made with the cooperation of the boxer's family By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast The real-life inspiration for ...

BROCKTON — Hanging onto every jab, an audience of Brockton residents and boxing fans from near and far gathered to watch a fight of which they already knew the outcome. Despite the foregone conclusion ...

Fifty years ago Saturday, Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Iowa. It was the day before his 46th birthday, and the news of his death came as a shock to everyone, especially those who knew him in ...

From the 1910s to the 1950s, baseball and boxing ruled the sports world. Both sports were thoroughly democratic: In the ring, Rex Layne fought Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Graziano took on Tony Zale. As ...

A tribute to Rocky Marciano’s legendary boxing trainer, Allie Colombo, will be held tomorrow night at Joe Angelo’s Café in Brockton. Both Marciano (49-0, 43 KOs), who retired in 1956 as the only ...

BROCKTON (CBS) – The bout between boxer Floyd Mayweather and MMA fighter Conor McGregor could be the fight of the century. They will go toe to toe Saturday night in Las Vegas and it could be the most ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Stanton profiles the pride of Brockton, heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano, in his biography Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World. Pulitzer Prize ...

Rocky Marciano’s rise through the heavyweight boxing ranks included a stop in Hartford, where he dispatched one of the countless “stumblebums” and “ham-donnies” used to beef up his record before the ...

BROCKTON – A new brand of wine named after Brockton boxing legend Rocky Marciano was launched in the undefeated heavyweight champion’s hometown on Wednesday. The distributors of the Rocky Marciano ...