Boxing Marciano Would Fight Johansson
(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) 1 MONTREAL, July 16 Rocky Marciano, a retired world heavy-weight boxing champion, said today that a* a businessman he was ready to consider fighting again.
He would want several fights before ne would feel ready to meet Ingemar Johansson, the new heavyweight champion, he said, and he would want his income from all fights spread over several years so the income tax would not jolt him too severely. “1 retired more than three years tgo,'* said Marciano "But I’m a businessman. I have been tn business about four years,- I will lis’en to any business proposition about a fight ”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 6
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