Rocky Graziano
Chronology
| 1922 | Born June 6 in New York City to Nick and Ida Scinto Barbella |
| 1939 | Begins training as a boxer |
| 1940 | Serves jail term for parole violation in New York City |
| 1941 | Serves term in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for being Absent Without Leave |
| 1942 | Begins professional boxing career |
| 1943 | Marries Norma Unger |
| 1946 | Loses World Middleweight Title match against Tony Zale |
| 1947 | Boxing license suspended for failing to report a bribe |
| 1947 | Wins World Middleweight Title match against Tony Zale |
| 1948 | Loses World Middleweight Title match against Tony Zale |
| 1952 | Concludes career as professional boxer |
| 1955 | Publishes autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me |
| 1977 | Induction into the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Dies in New York City on May 22 |
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