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
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WON
137 |
LOST
24 |
DRAWS
10 |
KO'S
44 |
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Multiple champion Tony Canzoneri has boldly
signed and inscribed this vintage photograph in dark blue fountain pen ink... An
impeccable image of a youthful Canzoneri and rare vintage form signature!!
measures: 8 x 10"
condition: some minor soiling and a few small/light crease marks, irregularly
trimmed
$285
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THE 100 GREATEST
BOXERS OF ALL TIME
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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
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Bert Randolph Sugar
Canzoneri ranked #9
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