Mickey Walker vs Tony Galento

[scorpio83]

Who would win this match up between "The Toy Bulldog" who fought great fighters from welterweight up to heavyweight and won both World Welterweight and Middleweight Titles or "Two Ton" Tony a rough and tough brawler heavyweight who fought great fighters, including the legendary "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis for his World Heavyweight Title in 15 rounds in the battle of New Jersey? Walker fought great heavyweights with the likes of World Heavyweight Champion in Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey and contenders like Paolino Uzcudun, Johnny Risko and Ed "Bearcat" Wright to name some and would he beat "Two Ton" Tony or Tony would fight dirty and beat Walker by TKO or decision him because Walker had a good chin?

[cfang]

This is oddly an interesting one. Walker an atg and galento...not. But galento was hard and rough and so much bigger.

Walker did draw with Sharkey and beat wright.

I see a prime walker having some rocky moments including a kd but winning by decision

[scorpio83]

This is oddly an interesting one. Walker an atg and galento...not. But galento was hard and rough and so much bigger.

Walker did draw with Sharkey and beat wright.

I see a prime walker having some rocky moments including a kd but winning by decision

Yes, Walker would outslug Galento with his lighter weight between 165 to 179 lbs and using his speed along with his heavy punches to take a decision is the most likely outcome should it happened.

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Galento was a much bigger puncher than Sharkey.

[scorpio83]

Galento was a much bigger puncher than Sharkey.

Yes he was the bigger puncher than Sharkey, who had brittle hands that he couldn't knock out more opponents in his career. Between Walker and Galento, this fight would be rough.

[Ambling Alp II]

Would go with Walker. Galento was terrible. His whole career is based on the knockdown of Louis.

[APerno]

[scorpio83]

I bet it would be a classic along with dirty and rough tactics.

[BitPlayer]

Would go with Walker. Galento was terrible. His whole career is based on the knockdown of Louis.

He beat Nova too.

[Ambling Alp II]

By far the biggest name on his record. By all accounts, he was lucky not to get disqualified. Watch the Baer fight. Watch the rest of the Louis fight. Look at his overall record. He was not a good fighter.

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[Ilya Muromets]

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Great clip! Galento and Walker looked like two guys with a good sense of humor - and Walker looked like an good artist too, tho his perspective was a bit parsimonious, or whatever it was that Tony said!

[tiny_acres]

By far the biggest name on his record. By all accounts, he was lucky not to get disqualified. Watch the Baer fight. Watch the rest of the Louis fight. Look at his overall record. He was not a good fighter.

A crude boxer who could hit hard.
But he had a successful career for being so limited.
And here we are 70 plus years later still talking about him