Tony Galento
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Dominick Anthony Galento was an American heavyweight boxer. He is best remembered for scoring a third-round knockdown against Joe Louis in a world title stoppage loss in June 1939. Active from the lat
Galento in 1938
Sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that Galento absorbed punches "like open buds absorb the dew"
Yankee Stadium circa 1925: the venue of Galento versus Louis in 1939
Ida B. Wise Smith, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1933 to 1944. The night before Galento versus Louis, Smith sent a telegram to Louis in which she made plain her organization's preference for "clean-charactered young men to users of alcohol."
Max Baer (boxer)
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Maximilian Adelbert Baer Sr. was an American professional boxer and the world heavyweight champion from June 14, 1934, to June 13, 1935. He was known in his time as the Livermore Larupper and Madcap M
Tony Galento
…and 6 draws. Besides Louis, Galento fought against several other prominent heavyweights of his era—including Al Ettore, Arturo Godoy, Lou Nova, and Max and Buddy Baer. Though assumed by some sportswriters to have been a reference to his "pulchritude" or physical appearance, Galento's nickname, "Two…
Baer c. 1935
Baer and Jean Howard in The Prizefighter and the Lady
Baer refereeing a match between George Godfrey (left) and Hank Hankinson, 1937
Carnera, Loy and Baer in The Prizefighter and the Lady