Tony Canzoneri
Featherweight Champion 1927-1928
Lightweight Champion 1930-1933, 1935-1936
Jr. Lightweight Champion 1931-1932, 1933

   

TONY CANZONERI
b. November 6, 1908
d. December 9, 1959

 

WON
137

LOST
24

DRAWS
10

KO'S
44

 

Multiple titleholder Tony Canzoneri has boldly autographed this small card in black fountain pen ink... Signed to perfection "best wishes from Tony Canzoneri"!!

measures: 2.25 x 3.75"
condition: some age toning, otherwise fine

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THE 100 GREATEST BOXERS OF ALL TIME
 

 
      His nickname was the diminutive "Canzi," short for Canzoneri. But other than his size, nothing else was small about Tony Canzoneri, a shooting star of unforgettable magnitude. Possessed of the hands of an artisan, not the laborer's hands of his Italian forbears, "Canzi" was a puncher who could punch and a boxer who could box, one of the greatest combination ringmen of all time. With inexhaustible energy, Canzoneri would tirelessly pressure his opponent, ready to drop his deadly right with such precision that one writer said of his power punch, "If you crossed him, he would dot your eyes," or swing his low-held lethal left with bludgeoning effect. Canzi's foes usually took on the look of a boilerplate, bearing hundreds of hammer marks and rivets put into place by this miniature boilermaker who came complete with a cast-iron jaw.  
 


Bert Randolph Sugar
Canzoneri ranked #9