Graziano's (R) overhand right nails champion Tony Zale on July 16, 1947. Zale's manager, Sol Gold, was apprehensive going into the fight, citing Graziano's propensity for stretching the rules.

who fights like a true-to-life Zale. Numbered among the featured and supporting cast are Everett Sloane, great as the manager Irving Cohen; Eileen Heckart, exceptionally fine as Graziano’s ...

Rocky Graziano, ex-middleweight champ and boxing ... on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: “Every place I go it’s ...