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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He fought ten world champions during his career and defeated three of them; Johnny Jadick, Tony Canzoneri, and Battling Shaw. Undated photo. Boxer Pat Valentino takes a right uppercut from former ...

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 ...