Tony Galento v. Adam Kownacki?

Two ton Tony fought a kangaroo, a bear and a octopus during his career, so this bum Kownackis powers are weak in comparison and would be 'moidered' good and proper.

 

One is a fat unskilled bum, who somehow became a ranked contender, the other is Tony Galento.

 

I wish I owned them. My coach is dead, but his son still has his film collection. My coach was very good friends with Marciano, Lou Duva, and Johnny Shkor and said he received film reels from them over the years and purchased the rest of the films in his collection. I never met Maricano or Shkor, but I did meet Duva with my coach in the late 90's and seen him hand my coach a film reel to add to his collection. He also even had footage of Joe Louis in a couple of his exhibitions. Later this month if I pass through Bakersfield I'll ask his son if I can post an old fight of Galento's that isn't on the internet.

 

Yeah, I'm definitely interested in them, as I would be of any HW fight that I've never seen before.

I doubt they'd do anything to change my mind about him. Still, I'm game.

 

Which fights were you specifically referring to when you made that earlier post?

 

I was referring to his fights with Leroy Haynes, Unknown Winston, and Otis Thomas. Galento was in good shape for all three fights. The best fight of the three was the fight with Unknown Winston.

 

Winston is one I'd like to see.

 

What if that film comes out and Galento looks like a heavyweight Willie Pep??

 

He also lost to a number of journeymen.

 

Im interested in this info too!

 

That is only as damaging as the context of those losses.

Bottom line:

After his last loss to Arturo Godoy in June of 37, Galento showed an impressive run of form, over a four year period.

He fought fifteen times, beating a number of contenders, with his only losses coming to Joe Louis, Max Baer, and Buddy Baer.

I am going to hazard a guess that he was quite hard to beat during this period.

 

Oh I am so glad this resurfaced!

 

I don’t know. Depends on where the fight is, who’s refereeing and the times.. if Tony’s dirty tactics are ignored he might get the win. If not then Adam’s high level workrate might prevail

 

Come on, Galento is going to chin him!

We might not even know who Kownacki is in ten years time!