Two Ton Tony Galento very underated

During the 1930's the Italian mafia ran a lot of boxing. New Jersey ( Galento's home town ) was a huge platform for the mob. Of Galento's 110 fights, more than half were in New Jersey or somewhere close by on the east coast. You figure it out.

 

Galento was a tough guy and would do well today, remember he fought Joe Louis but would have beaten some of the Alphabet Champs and has a shot vs Sultan,Peter,Chagaev and many others that held the title but he did not have a style that could beat all types....James Toney is 5"10 on his tippytoes, different style but Galento fought out of a crouch and had good power...He had some good wins, funny I see people saying he was mobbed up but do you think if that was so, that a lot of the Black fighters did not have connections. the mob was colorblind when it came to money. A lot of the great Black fighters had connections like Billy Fox and it was Lamotta that took the dive. A lot more fights were on the level yrs ago than given credit and WHo was behind the Ali victorys over Liston...Don King was also caught bribing Ring magazine executive John Ort on his quest to get Holmes a ranking, he even got his opponent Tom Prator ranked to make it look like he beat someone better. Galento had some good legit wins

 

He lived in New Jersey?

Where is the actual evidence?

 

I don't get the joke???

 

If a guy lived in New Jersey in those days most of his fights would be in New Jersey unless he either had some serious financial backing or liked traveling in boxcars.

 

he sometimes traveled to the midwest ( where I'm from ), for a few of his matches, but basically he fought mainly in New Jersey. I have little or no doubt that the man was pushed to the front of the line by the mob.

 

Galento was photed whith mobsters. Here is part of his book review

Sounds like there was some " fixing " going on. How much or with whom, I do not know.

[url]http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2006/0611/611rv-twoton.html[/url]

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Although I can't prove a thing, I am almost positive that a lot of his fights were fixed.

 

I think the review of the Two Ton Tony book tells us what we need to know.

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Again it is really just heresay.

Not solid historical evidence.

Like Hitler having one testicle.

 

Yes, its all heresay, but I am skeptical to certain degree

 

From a historical standpoint you tend to try to prove something rather than disprove it.

If you cant prove then you say:

Some circumstantial evidence indicates blah blah blah

 

True

 

Yeah, he had a lot of losses, so it is possible that he tanked some of those. Maybe the mob ruined his career, getting him to carry lesser fighters. Maybe they let him out of the "cuffs" now and then, and got him a shot at a title, but messed him up but asking him to lose so many fights. Maybe that's why he never bothered training.

It's all speculation.

BREAKING NEWS !
"1930s New Jersey Italian-American bartender/prizefighter pictured with known mobsters !!"