"Two Ton" Tony Galento

[TheGreatA]

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...ttles-on-table

http://www.efootage.com/stock-footag...ore_The_Fight/

[The Surgeon]

That happened 3 days before Galento fought Max Baer. The brother wanted free tickets to a fight & Tony said "Get in line like evrybody else!" His brother threw a bottle of beer at Tony, who naturally, forgot to duck. It hit him in the chin, needing stitches. His brother's wife said "Tony can sometimes be a difficult man."

I heard his brother bottled him ON the DAY OF the Baer fight? Could be wrong but i found an article from a guy who knew Tony from the old block, his dad was good pals with Galento and drank at his bar. He claims its very little known and was never published but Galento again got clocked by his brother with a bottle on the head tho leaving a three inch gash that needed stitched up before he fought The Bomber....

Not sure how much stock to put into it but we know if it happened (and it may well have) Tony would have just fought on

He also tells of Galento not wearing a gumshield to fight and getting his tongue nearly bit in two, he shunned hospital for the pub where a doctor sewed him up and Tony never even flinched....

[GJC]

Ha. I liked the announcer describing Galento as "the shorter and the harrier of the two".

Yes
Jack Doyle was quite a character too if you know of him?

[Terry A]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt33VKcwQfA

Has there ever been 2 bigger characters with a capital C in the ring together at one time than this, shame it was a wrestling match

GJC, thanks for posting that! Never seen it before.

"The shorter, hairier of the two....." Classic.

[McGoorty]

I always read a lot but even more so for the past month. Just finished a great book by Joesph Monniger entitled "Two Ton...One Fight, One Night" which is the story of Tony Galento vs Joe Louis.

I've heard about Galento since I was a kid but to be honest, I never thought much of him. What a character this guy was! He said & did some really funny stuff, including agreeing to fight an octopus in a giant aquarium. The author gives the varied accounts of what happened next...either Tony bit the octopus, or the octopus bit Tony, but it ended up where Tony "strangeled it by mistake." Some of the other thing Galento did & said were just as funny. Or odd.

As a fighter, it's apparent I never gave him the amount of respect he deserved. This book enlightened me as to just how tough & rugged Galento really was. It also does justice to Joe Louis & gives some insights that I was not aware of. And I have read oodles of Joe Louis books & magazine articles.

Surprisingly, it turned out to be one of the better boxing books I've read.

Tony Galento is one of those footnotes in boxing history that most of us will forever associate with him knocking down the great Joe Louis. But when you read as well a researched biography as this one, you come to regard him as more then a "one hit wonder".

Any of you fellas have any thoughts on Tony Galento that you would like to share? I'd be interested in what some of my buddies think about him.

I loved the name "two Ton", and he hit like that too. Was there many good quotes re-Galento in that book ? sounds like a great book, I'd love to read it.