Those who hadn’t heard the news seemed to sense what had happened as they watched folks gathering outside the Broadway restaurant and heard them speaking in hushed tones about the man they had ...

For some time, Tony Canzoneri, the frog-faced Brooklyn fighter who won the lightweight championship of the world from Al Singer, has been supposed to be washed out. Grounds for this belief ...

DelVecchio was convicted of killing Tony Canzoneri during a home invasion and robbery of the boy’s home. He was also convicted of sexually assaulting the boy’s mother, whom he knew.

Luigi D’Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) and Tony Canzoneri began fighting each other in 1931. They fought several rounds every day. Canzoneri, then lightweight champion, was training for an important bout ...

The fight he enjoyed telling about most was Tony Canzoneri against Jimmy McLarnin in 1936. This was to be the fight everybody wanted; a dream match since both had great followings. Canzoneri had ...

Tony Canzoneri, former lightweight champion of the world meets Frankie Klick, of California, in a fifteen round battle. The winner will meet Barney Ross for the world’s lightweight championship.

Tony and manager Sammy Goldman fared badly in various business ventures. Canzoneri bought a farm in Marlboro, New York, for his family, but the cost and the outgoings sucked away much of his hard ...