Marciano Knocks Out Louis in Eighth
Round of Heavyweight Fight in Garden
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EX-CHAMPION LOSES TO BROCKTON BOXER
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Louis Is Knocked From Ring by Marciano's
 Right to Jaw in 2:36 of 8th Round
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REFEREE DISDAINS COUNT
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Goldstein Waves End to Fight With Brown Bomber
Lying on Back Outside Ropes
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By JOSEPH P. NICHOLS

    Joe Louis was knocked out last night. The once incomparable Brown Bomber of the dreaded punch and the electric reflexes lost to Rocky Marciano, undefeated battler from Brockton, Mass., in the eighth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden.
    At least, the record books will say that it was Marciano who beat Joe, but everybody knows it was age. The years, a half-score of them, were against the 37-year-old Louis, as he plodded through seven dreary rounds with his rival, ten years younger. There was little indication that Louis wouldn't be able to go the scheduled ten, but in the eighth things changed suddenly, and Louis showed his years.
    A crowd of 17,241 paid a total of $152,845 to see the fight, which was the thirty-eighth professional one for Marciano. The Brockton gladiator won all his previous encounters, but was the short ender in last night's betting at odds of 8 to 5.
    The officials' sheets indicated that it was Marciano's fight even before the sudden termination. Goldstein had it four to two in Rocky's favor, with one even; Judge Harold Barnes favored Marciano four and three and Judge Joe Agnello voted for Rocky, five and two. This observer's score coincided with Agnello's.
    Marciano did the greater damage through the evening with a wild right hand intended for the head. The punch missed it's target just about as often as it landed, but when it hit Joe it bothered him considerably. As for Louis, his best punch was his ramrod left jab. This blow is as powerful as most heavyweights' solid right hand wallops.
    On occasion Marciano seemed to walk right into this left and when he did it seemed only natural that Louis would whip across the finishing right to the jaw, as he used to do. But here the reflexes were noticeably lethargic, and Rocky was able to move away from blows that no man in the world could have avoided a few years back.

The New York Times - October 27, 1951