It's a well-worn route, and one Rocky used when he'd run home-cooked lunch over to his dad at the Stacey Adams Shoe Factory. This is the Rocky Marciano family home at 168 Dover St. in Brockton.

The photographs accompanying this article are from Rocky Marciano’s brother, Peter. Also seen in the phots are Rocky Jr and his family. The WBC was represented by Mike George and Jim Mercante.

At Yankee Stadium in New York, Rocky Marciano successfully defended his title for the sixth and last time, retiring unbeaten in September 1955.

Nikolai Valuev (46-1, 34KOs) can forget about breaking the unbeaten 49-0 record of Rocky Marciano. Ruslan "White Tyson" Chagaev (23-0-1, 17KOs) outhustled Valuev on route to a majority decision to ...

The WBC which is headed by Don Jose Sulaiman said the unveiling of the Marciano statue is projected to take place in May 2010 in Marciano’s hometown of Brockton, Massachusetts.