Here's mine. This is what I could find with a quick trawl through The RING's annual ratings. The following fighters were beaten by Canzoneri and all were at some point in the top ten. Important note: I didn't even touch junior lightweight or junior welterweight, just bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. Hall of Famers in bold: Johnny Green Pete Sarmiento Ignacio Fernandez x3 Vic Foley Bobby Garcia Chick Suggs Joey Sangor Andre Routis Sammy Dorfman Phil McGraw Johnny Farr x3 Joe Glick Tommy Grogan x2 Al Singer Lew Massey Battling Gizzy Billy Townsend Eddie Wolfe Harry Dublinsky x2 Frankie Klick x4 Cleto Locatelli x2 Leo Rodak Bobby Pacho x2 Joe Ghnouly Al Roth Billy Hogan Steve Halaiko Johnny Jadick Johnny Dundee Bud Taylor Benny Bass x2 Jack 'Kid' Berg x2 Kid Chocolate x2 Billy Petrolle Lou Ambers Baby Arizmendi Jimmy McLarnin Probably missed a few.
You've done threads on two of my top ten favourite fighters, today. Why, if I had your picture, I'd make damned sure you had a WAR hat on, I say.
Canzoneri had balls. Ballsy ******* with that low-hands and chin out counter-punching style. But that's a given considering he's Italian. Great fighter, perhaps a shade under-appreciated and or underrated.
By my reckoning Tony spent 47 months as the best LW in the world and 11 months as the best FW in the world. His best years were from 27-33 and his ledger looks something like this WW: McLarnin, Jadick. LW (including his lww fights): K Chocolate (x2), Ambers, B Taylor, Routis, Bass, Singer, Shaw, Berg (x2), Petrolle, Rodak - Singer (D), Jadick (D)* - Mandell (L) Ross (Lx2), Fuller (L), Jadick (L), Berg (L), Petrolle (L), Ramey (L), Blitzman (L) FW: J Dundee, Routis, Bass, I Fernandez, Foley - Sarmiento, - Routis (L), C Anderson (L) BW: B Graham, C Lynch (x2) - B Taylor (D) - B Taylor (L). In all honesty, that level of weight jumping impresses me more than Pac's does.
Vic Foley - I knew his nephew in BC Canada. Foley was a great tough little fighter, if you look at his record he had 29 draws, 29. you just wonder how many of them might have favoured the home town fighter? seemingly Foley was trying hard to get McClarnin, but Old Pops Foster steered his boy right to secure him into title place. Foley ended up in the Klondike or somewhere up in the booming North and ran a Hotel/Saloon dealing with all manner of growlers over the years. Some great old fighters back in the day! JG or Burt do you know anything about Vic Foley, a little before your time but perhaps you might remember stories or mention of him?
