Gillette Cavalcade of Sports - Marciano vs. Walcott (1953)
1953 · Television · 25 min
Synopsis
Rocky Marciano defends the world heavyweight championship against Jersey Joe Walcott, who had lost the title to him in September 1952, in a rematch at Chicago Stadium.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Live TV
- 1950's Television
- Kinescope
- Boxing
- Gilette
- Cavalcade of Sports
- Chicago
- NBC
- 1953
- Jimmy Powers
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · The Gilette Theme Song Made Me Remember More than Proust. · elmagno · 2010-03-11
Thanks so much for this. My father was a great fight fan, kept a scrapbook, etc. I remember when I was four or five we got our first TV, an Emerson in a pecan cabinet. But it was fight night when we got it home,and we watched the Gilette show in the living room with the Emerson still partly in the box. We didn't miss much back then. Life was grand. Thanks again.
★★★ · The commercials were longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 · quigs · 2010-03-11
The good side of this is the showing of live tv of Rocky defending hid title. The bad side is it just was one punch that really connected to Joe's jaw. Said it aian't so Joe.