text: Pulp International - Sportswire
  Sportswire Sep 23 2015
  The National Police Gazette loved fighters in general and Rocky Marciano in particular. He appeared on the magazine's cover at least a dozen times, and above you see another colorful photo-illustration put together from a shot made during his first bout with heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott, which the much younger Marciano won by TKO. The fight was today in 1952, and the photo appeared on the Gazette a year later in September 1953.