Rocky Graziano vs Tony Zale - Documentary ("The Final Chapter")

Great Documentary about the legendary Zale-Graziano Trilogy. Both Graziano and Zale talk about the fight trilogy many years later.

[@dicktiger68]

I agree with you. Lots of the general public have never heard of Zale and they should watch his fights. Tough as hell and a great body puncher.

[@Emeraldisle4ever]

'Tony Zale ' vs 'Rocky Graziano ' were true classic trilogy fights between two Men who were willing to lock horns and both Deserve Respect and God bless them Both.

[@yaesuman]

A interesting bit that is very telling about Tony's ability as a boxer. I grew up around 87th St on the southeast side of Chicago. For a few years we had a young boxer living in our neighborhood on 86th and Jeffery Blvd. This boxer was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. He was just one of the people who lived in the neighborhood. We'd see him at the stores along 87th St all the time. He was quiet and very unassuming. One day I went up to him and introduced myself and told him that Tony Zale was related to me. I'll always remember his reaction, he nodded his head and smiled and said he was a great admirer of Tony and that he studied Tony's style, especially the way he body punched. He told me that Tony was by far the best body puncher in boxing!

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

Bill Price you’re not related

[@richardlundy3691]

@@Ijustinsultedyou 🤣🤣🤣

[@BigLouUSAF_VET]

My Dad grew up in Slag Valley, and my Mom on the East Side.

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Toy zale de tous etait appart

[@nobodyaskedbut]

Zale might be the most un-appreciated great champion of all-time. His career was interupted as champion for 4 years during WW2 in which he served at sea in the navy. After the war he defended and regained the middleweight title.

[@buddyvilla7393]

And then Zale was knocked out by the Frenchman Marcel Cerdan. Who only lost two fights in his career. Fighting with a separated shoulder he lost his title to Jake Lamotta.

[@knockknock1246]

A bit shy and also hard of hearing, Tony was still popping at that heavy bag into his later years. The Man Of Steel 🥊 Graziano 🥊

[@titaniumpecker]

Right hand to the body. Left hook to the head. A very effective combination when thrown by a guy with the power and skill of Tony Zale.

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Et lupercute a l'interieure

[@jaycobden2041]

What a pair of Legends and the great Don Dunphy.

[@beatlejim64]

PROBABLY...the greatest 3 fight series in history!!!

[@jean-luchochart6960]

Et Marcel Cerdan?C'est un oubli?

[@skinking2252]

@@jean-luchochart6960 Jamais! Vive Cerdan!

[@jean-luchochart6960]

@@skinking2252 Merci pour lui cher ami. Zale,lui non plus ne l'avait pas oublié! De même qu'il ne faut pas oublier un certain Laurent Dauthuille qui a combattu vaillamment. Décidément les amerloques ont la mémoire sélective. Ce racisme antifrançais m'exaspère.Content de vous avoir connu et au plaisir!

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Exacte

[@aramissezourhi25]

Certainement oui

[@boogiechillen123]

This was old school, where people who paid to see the fight for there moneys worth. Reminds me of the three bouts with Mickey Ward and Arturo Gatti.

[@raydimuro4868]

got to love theses greats,so simple and so true,the real thing

[@bengerman8609]

Pound for pound I believe that sale had the hardest punch that I have ever seen. I studied his fights, and the way he put his weight behind every single punch was picture perfect. He could have dropped any prizefighter if he connected including Joe Louis. He is the most underrated boxer ever. Very sad.

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Plus that sale guy was never for Sale.

[@franksantucci3038]

Of course he could drop any prize fighter if he connected, then again so could any good Middleweight. Middleweights hit like Heavyweights and move like Lightweights, always was the most exciting division to watch...

[@JamesN976]

@Bumdog Torres. Zale was inactive because he fought in world war 2 and hadn't fought for years before his first fight with Graziano, Zale was a bit past his prime by then but Graziano didn't take boxing as seriously as most champions, both guys at their absolute bests would have really been something.

[@westfalenstadion7325]

A Great Fighter 'Tony Zale' R I P .

[@ascent7]

+Johnny Rotten totally

[@horsthorst4259]

Westfalen Stadion bvbeste

[@jackchurilla6035]

Have to wonder what Zales career would have looked like if he didnt miss his prime years in the Navy.

[@ricochetshotz]

Zale got knocked out and de-throned by Cerdan.......then Lamotta took the title from Cerdan.........Robinson took the title from Lamotta.......Cerdan died in an accident and Zale was largely inactive/retired...there was only a small window of oppurtunity for them to fight, dont forget that robinson was also highly avoided, and didnt even get a title shot until he was 73-1 and had beat all of the best lightweight, welterweight and several middleweight fighters, champions and hall of famers

[@1969JohnnyM]

Zale was another class to Graziano, Zale could box as well as slug it out. Its just a pity that Cerdan didn't get in the mix earlier, the war messed up many a career. It would have been great if Cerdan had met Zale a few years earlier - wow what a war !

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Cest sur

[@johnluongo4230]

The last right hand that Zale threw to the body before the final left hook actually took Graziano off the ground!

[@davetrent3682]

Zale had pinpoint precision heavy hands and perfect snap on every shot vicious body puncher and lethal explosive left hook

[@carlitoboxing7isback]

I wish the 3 full fights were available

[@tonyatwood9505]

Tony zale was a terrific body puncher

[@jeanmariebasset2544]

C'est dire la performance de Marcel Cerdan

[@edwardfalsey7810]

If you notice in this interview Tony Zale is slurring his words just a little bit, I met him in 1980 when I was an amateur boxer in Chicago, he had a very pronounced stutter, it was obvious to me that he took way to many hard blows to the head. All of our trainers were from that era also, and their fight plan was really quite simple, hit him harder and more often than he hits you, defense was taught somewhat, but for the most part, keep punching !!!

[@ronaldlevao8251]

Yes, I noticed Tony's slurring, too. An interview with Johnny Carson (also on youtube) has Rocky imitating an older Zale with a slurring voice and Johnny asks "did he talk that way?" Hard to make out Rocky's response but it was jovial. Different sense of humor in those days.

[@harishkumaran7986]

​@@ronaldlevao8251those days the guys became best buddies after fighting each other , one day they'd be knocking lumps outta each other and the next day you'll see them drinking together

[@pukulu]

Zale took a lot of losses early in his career, when he was in his early 20s. I suppose that he was a bit like Dick Tiger, who also lost a bunch of fights while he was young, but learned from the losses and became world class. Zale's final fight was a loss to Marcel Cerdan, another all-time great.

[@pukulu]

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[@pukulu]

Graziano : "He give me a Jewish uppercut, right in the solar plexus"

[@pukulu]

Graziano had a very good left hook, sort of a lunging, leaping left hook like the one Floyd Patterson had. Graziano was not a clever boxer but he could counterpunch. He was not just a brawler. He had an excellent career as a boxer, including some excellent wins after he lost his 2nd fight with Zale.

[@Hugh_Morris]

Absolutely, learnt on the job

[@franksantucci3038]

Tiger used to fight almost weekly, Gillette Friday night fights. Of course I'm talking about Dick Tiger, and not Tiger Jones or Tiger Jack Fox or Tiger Ted Lowery or even Tony the Tiger. They're all GREAAAAT...

[@RedcoatsReturn]

I just discovered Tony Zale, boy he was damn good! He would have challenged the great Sugar Ray even. He was a mature boxer but we know today 35 is not the end. That bazooka right was light nothing Ive seen.

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

Redcoat‘s Return He was destroyed by Marcel Cerdan. He would of never came close to beating Sugar Ray Robinson

[@skinking2252]

@@Ijustinsultedyou He was already washed-up when he fought Cerdan though

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

Andrew Martinelli I’m gonna give credit to Cerdan. I’m not gonna stage rob Marcel Cerdan by saying Zale was washed up. Both of them were in their 30’s and Cerdan has already had well over 100 pro fights by the time he fought Zale.

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

Zale was a Great Boxer.

[@AsRealAsItGetsBoxing]

thx for this upload aprieciate these videos

[@yaesuman]

My uncle is Anthony Florian Zaleski AKA Tony Zale!

[@rsbglovedones2548]

Cousin Bill. You are and will always be related to Uncle Tony.

[@rsbglovedones2548]

Iceman3000 Yes he is. Cousins are cousins and he is related by marriage just as Deb is. I’m her husband and I know fact and fiction. Bill is related. Ted Zale or Thad since I don’t know you.

[@rsbglovedones2548]

Bill Price Love you too cuz

[@maks3231]

Polish warior, Tony Zale

[@maks3231]

Antoni Florian Załęski.

[@titaniumpecker]

It's a shame that there is no film of the first two fights which were considered "wars". The third and final fight between Zale and Graziano was one sided. Zale kicked his ass and knocked him out (Graziano was unconscious for several minutes).

[@EXPOSEDBYGABRIELPEREZ]

Just wondering why There is no films of the most important fights of the 3 the first and second

[@AdamsTysu]

Antoni Załęski vel Tony Zale - he came from a Polish family. His father Józef came with his family in 1911 to Chicago from Nowy Sącz . Tony considered himself a Pole and always emphasized his Polish origin. He was nicknamed "The Man of Steel". It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Apart from the ring, he is quiet, calm, and during the fights he changed beyond recognition - said his relatives and Steve Mamakos. - When I fought Tony, I felt like I was inside a volcano. A great champion, a modest athlete, a Polish legend. He never came to Poland after WWII because he was afraid of communists.

[@hermenutic]

I first read of these fights in a print magazine, BOXING ILLUSTRATED, when I was in high school. The magazine had wonderful boxing centerfold fold out pictures. Charles and Marciano stands out in my mind. It's sad only one of the three fights exists on film. I do remember reading print reports of the other fights. I was two years old when the last fight was fought. But reading about those fights blows my mind. Seeing this one convinces me the first two were out of this world.

[@tpachucki1]

Tony Zale. Great Polish boxer.

[@TheBatugan77]

I think Rocky said that if there were no referee, one of them would have ended up dead.

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Oui exacte juillet 1947 et septembre 46 au yankee stadium

[@MrToband]

Back when men were real men, nowadays fighters don't want to fight someone who might beat them or give them a good fight, they want a perfect record,a perfect record don't mean shit when you ain't fought anyone who could possibly beat you,except Lomachenko, his record has zero fat on it. He went from amateurs straight to 12 round fights against world champions.

[@Ali-nw8iz]

C sur

[@warrenrosen132]

The golden age of middleweights.

[@smbchc]

14:38 min, Zale grabs Graziano right arm, and Rocky's left automatically goes up, he wasn't even looking that way

[@yaesuman]

Mick Bell you are wrong about why Tony never fought Jake. I just got this from my cousin Ted Zale the author of the new soon to be released book on the life of Tony. "Tony never made his own choices. His managers did. When he came out of the service in December of 45, they looked at where he could make the most money for his effort. Some young guy named graziano was a favorite in NY and he could always beat lamatta in reform school. So, they set him up with rocky first. Tony also wanted to fight sugar ray but that couldn’t be arranged either. (See my quote from Sugar Ray) Biggest bang for the buck is what the story tells. When he won back the title back in 1948, active discussions were on again on who would be next. Again, dollars brought in the Frenchman, Cerdan … he truly was a great one. Wish he had lived to win it back from lamatta."

[@edwardchapel8036]

Absolutely awesome.

[@imandrique]

These guys don't slur their speech much, even at an advanced age... Weird, considering how the younger bangers today struggle to form coherent sentences. I think Graziano's "slurring" is just his Brooklyn accent.

[@jessiejames7492]

+imandrique probably lifestyle and drugs nowadays

[@antoniokasto4293]

where did he come from hells kitchen manhatten??

[@istvandejesus]

This is the greatest trilogy ever. Ward Vs Gatti and Morales vs Barrera are very close.

[@MrToband]

Zale vs. Robinson would have been a hell of a fight, too close to call.I gotta lean towards Zale though, just too tough. But on the other hand Robinson was a awesome puncher, damn,that would have been a good fight.

[@cheetoyeeto1232]

cerdan, zale, SRR, heck even steele, should have fought each other. steele was a fantastic boxer

[@Ali-nw8iz]

C sur

[@hammeringhank5271]

First off awesome video. Secondly did Bert Sugar say this was Boxings first trilogy? I have to be the boxing fan that obsesses over every detail just find mistakes but that's just not true. There were plenty of great trilogy's that came before Graziano Zale. Harry Greb vs Tiger Flowers, Jimmy McLarin vs Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong vs Fritze Zivic all came before this and I'm sure many other trilogy's did too.

[@tylerross9706]

How about the sam langford and Joe jennette and harry wills saga? Man they fought so many dam times

[@LeePenn2492]

Both bang on fighters..

[@patszer8314]

In his own way, Rocky was a true gentleman. Zale was always a class act.

[@davetrent3682]

Zale is the consummate boxer puncher his body shots are absolutely withering and his left hook is a precision howitzer shot and a chin of granite

[@BumdogTorres]

Zale never fought Robinson or Lamotta, that why few know anything about him. He would be even less known if it wasn't for these three fights with Graziano.

[@annanddeonarine6140]

Bumdog Torres so true

[@aramissezourhi25]

Je ne pense pas car zale etait dejas champion depuis 5ans avant dsa triologie qvec graziano et il avait meme combattu billy con qui etait pas de la meme categorie et avait seulement perdu aux points en tout et mour tout zale a ete champion pendant 7 ans il navais pas besoin de ces combats avec graziano de plus ces matchs non pas ete benefique pour sa santee

[@markjohnston3016]

It's a shame the first two fights are lost to the ages now. I know the 1st fight WAS filmed because I used to watch it replayed occasionally in the 70's and it's the best slugfest I've EVER seen!!! The 3rd fight isn't even close to being as good as the others- especially the first all out war!!!

[@franksantucci3038]

They were all filmed. There has to be film somewhere...

[@ronaldlevao8251]

I never heard the expression "Jewish Uppercut" before (14:30). Rocky seems to mean it surprised him, and I recall he speaks very warmly about Jewish and Italian people being alike in his autobiography. Zale laughs at it, as if recognizing the slang. Googling it I found a bare-knuckle era Jewish fighter named Dutch Sam Elias (he "studied" with Daniel Mendoza) claimed to invent the uppercut in the early-19th Century--Wikipedia entry on Dutch Sam backs this up-- and there seems to be a South Park Clip named that, but I still don't get it. Old gym talk? picked up from Whitey Bimstein or Ray Arcel? I'll bet Nat Fleischer could have cleared this up.

[@davetrent3682]

The rock has pure malice and street fighting skills big right hand plus truckloads of charisma

[@jackiebonds9109]

Nano mama Chuckie feels like I was on the corner of Broome and Mott street love it

[@David-vn2id]

If you find this interesting you may also enjoy the movie with Paul Newman bio pic called Someone up there likes me. Very few black and white films impress me, but this one for sure was well done.

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Je lais vus au cinema en 1993 2 fois

[@aqraja72]

Forgettaboutit😍

[@bengerman8609]

Yale's left hook would have dropped any man. Just brutal.

[@AngryScotProductions]

if you look at the way we fought back then, youll know why me and tony look the way we do. LMAO

[@7555mac]

graziano had no left hook as that what zale had and kept flooring grazzi with it

[@mickbell6552]

Zale was awesome

[@davetrent3682]

Just look at rock he's a pure block of muscle what a natural destroyer just not quite enough finesse pure street fighting killer

[@chrisorchard7710]

Tony Zale was a great fighter but this fight against Graziano goes to show just how great a fighter Marcel Cerdan was and he never gets the credit he deserves Cerdan was the most overlooked middleweight in history ,check out what he does to Zale only three months after this fight ,he destroyed him ,part of the reason Cerdan was overlooked was because he was not an American fighter when the U S had almost a monopoly on world championship boxing ,whenever anyone talks of Middleweight greats Marcel Cerdans name belongs right up there with the very best of the division .

[@aramissezourhi25]

Merci vous aviez tout resumer

[@hopobnoxious7379]

I'm related to the Grazianos and Rocky would've been my cousin if he didn't pass

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

Hop Obnoxious no your not

[@jackiebonds9109]

Mulberry street in da house RIP ROCKY!

[@getredytagetredy]

Could you imagine Ray Robinson fighting Marcel Cerdan ?

[@Lonelysportofboxing]

Or Zale or Freddie Steele!

[@Mike-qo3dq]

Great times. Simpler. I wonder what the likes of Rocky and Tony would think of todays state of affairs. Both in boxing and life. The amount of money in it. People avoiding fights and ducking each other. The over the top politically correct bullshit we have to endure every single day. Everyone so offended all the time. LGBT etc....jesus. They wouldn't believe it.

[@NYVoice]

Dick Schapp went to high school a few minutes from my house.

[@mickbell6552]

Any reason why that never happened. Rocky and Jake were friends who had a pact not to fight.

[@stevendinospataro838]

Jeffrey Sussman discusses his latest book "Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, Fortune" at The East Hampton Library 4/21/18 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX2rqqJ6l9hjpbs

[@Ramadl59]

They're still hitting each other lol.

[@CharlieFernandez-eb9df]

Glass with. Two Egges. Like. Rocky. Grasiano

[@aramissezourhi25]

Il ny as plus eu de poids moyen apres eux comme zale motta cerdan graziano robinson ceux la sortait du lot ils sont incomparable

[@markjohnston3016]

Why don't you ever show the first fight first fight was the best

[@aramissezourhi25]

Cest sur en 1946 et aussi le 2eme en 47

[@darrinconnor7]

If I had one thing to say to Zale it would be "what?"

[@rsbglovedones2548]

I love you Uncle and I hope you enjoyed the biography I completed in your honor. Thad Zale

[@antoniokasto4293]

bert sugar was a real expert...and rocky and tony two very tough guys...tony lost to marcel cerdan a great fighter and i think if the rematch had come off with jake lamotta and marcel cerdan i think marcel would have won on points....only my opinion of course

[@aramissezourhi25]

Oui san aucun doute car zale frappais plus fort que la motta et avait beaucoup plus de technique

[@dennishenry3319]

The only thing wrong with this brilliant fight, was that poxy crappie ref..he should of stopped the fight when the rock was clearly I'm Trouble..out on his feet... yet rocky his huge heart tried fighting back..but Tony aclinucsl technical fighter..delivered 2 more lethal left / rights.head& Body perfect speed and timing. 2 brutal punches the rock did.nt need 2 take..this is what causes permanent injuries..and H4bid_ fatalities...lucky 4 him and us..rock like most boxers back then including zale..were made of carbon and steel...rip to 2 of the greats..

[@CharlieFernandez-eb9df]

Like. In. Philidelphia

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Jexcrois que mike tyson devrais lacher les combats car il as toute la collectiont . Il me semble

[@yaesuman]

Hey Bumdog Torres Want to know why Tony didn't fight Robinson. Here's a quote from Sugar Ray Robinson that explains why he and Tony never fought "They all wanted me to fight you. They offered me a lot of money, but I wanted nothing to do with you. You hit too hard to the body." That's why Tony never fought Robinson!

[@josephchurch4969]

Bill Price "bull-shit"

[@Lonelysportofboxing]

Or maybe it was another one of those “Low Reward High Risk” reasons

[@AngryScotProductions]

is tony zale boomhauers dad?

[@PAULINAMAYI]

What happened to boxing, can't even tell you who the Hevey weight champ is.

[@tacomadc]

There was a second punch to the solar plexus after the chin shot, the ref is in the way. A "jewish uppercut" lol.

[@Hyymiee]

Antoni Zaleski

[@sandraoss326]

the person posting this video needs to have their hearing checked

[@Ali-nw8iz]

Zale en 1946 aurais bu battre nimporte qui

[@knockknock1246]

Zale was hornery at times, so it seems

[@Atomicflash500]

first knock down was a push.

[@shakeAbooty88]

You mean be naive and work for the rich and/or powerful?

[@johnmusalo1545]

sound sucks

[@colincampbell7928]

Zale sounds punch drunk, like James Toney.