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A 5’9”, 240-pound street thug, Tony Galento’s favourite punch was an eye gouge. He trained on beer and hotdogs, boxed a kangaroo, and dropped Joe Louis. Born on this day in 1910, hear about his wild life at The Fighting Life:
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Chris Ryan
@rushcuttersbox
Writer, co-host of The Fighting Life, PT and former amateur boxer
Joined October 2023
- Inside the Soviet-era gym of Nikolai Petrovich Isaev, who would later train a young Dmitry Bivol.
00:00 - It’s hard to like Sinatra once you hear how he treated Floyd Patterson in the wake of Patterson’s 1965 loss to Muhammad Ali. Patterson told the story in an article, In Defence of Cassius Clay, that appeared in Esquire Magazine.
- When I came across this pic while researching our podcast about Tony Galento, I was struck by the facial expression of referee Arthur Donovan. It seemed to me he was a man who had seen a lot of suffering, and I was keen to find out more…
- Every boxer needs an excuse after a loss - without one it's that much harder to climb back in the ring. But few fighters have come up with an excuse as memorable as Frank Slavin, who fought Peter Jackson for the Empire Heavyweight Title on May 30, 1892
- A hobo, a heavyweight boxer, and a Hollywood star. A suspected jewellery thief, and a convicted killer. It sounds like a collection of characters from a Tarantino film, but it's all one man...
- Marvin Hagler like you’ve never seen him before (with hair). In 1974, Hagler and Tony Petronelli (right) joined dancer Tony Capanzaro for publicity photos ahead of ‘Night at Fights’ to benefit The Boston Ballet Society.
- “Sometimes I’m appalled at how much I like boxing. I guess we all are” Gene Hackman quoted in the LA Times, March 25, 1989. Pictured here in his 1988 film, Split Decisions.
- I had around 90 fights as an amateur and won more than I lost, but it was more than 20 years ago so I never expected to be on boxrec. Imagine my delight when I saw this…
- Sonny Liston's prison stints are well known, but have you heard how his first time inside went? In the wake of Liston's death his friend, boxing promoter Harold Conrad, shared a cracking story in a letter to newspaperman Bob "Muffo" Mussel...
- Happy Valentine’s Day, that special day of the year when we all remember Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson’s sixth and final fight, at a packed Chicago stadium in 1951.
