With paulie being seemingly the last in the great tradition of italian american fighters, and watching some Basilio DeMarco highlights, LaMotta highlights got me thinking about the best ever italian americans to fight. How the old neighbourhoods (much like the irish ones) in the big eastern cities produced great fighters but have no sadly mostly dissapeared, along with the gyms in them meaning the fighters inevitably drifted to other things. Who would your top 10 italians american fighters of all time be? What about this? 1. Pep 2. Marciano 3. Canzoneri 4. LaMotta 5. Graziano 6. Basilio 7. young corbett 8. Maxim 9. Mancini 10. Antuofermo Off the top of my head
1. Willie Pep 2. Tony Canzoneri 3. Rocky Marciano 4. Jake La Motta 5. Johnny Dundee 6. Billy Petrolle 7. Carmen Basilio 8. Rocky Graziano 9. Lou Ambers 10. Joey Maxim I'll admit I borrowed this list, I didn't even know Ambers and Maxim were Italian.
