Tony Galento Speaks!(1939)

[Brutu]

Here is Tony Galento and he does his Tarzan- yodel(?) too while training for the fight with Joe Louis.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=24198

[Ilya Muromets]

Ha ha - he was a funny guy!

Let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown...

[Brutu]

I would have figured before that Galento would have sounded a little like Edward G. Robinson when he spoke.
(the only time I remeber hearing his voice before,was the post-fight film clip when he is in his dressing room just after the fight
with Joe Louis,when it looked like his towel was gonna fall off.
He sounded down in the dumps in that clip.

If Tony Galento sounds a little like Lou Costello of Abbot& Costello,
that may perhaps be because Lou Costello was from Paterson New Jersey.

[Ilya Muromets]

...

If Tony Galento sounds a little like Lou Costello of Abbot& Costello,
that may perhaps be because Lou Costello was from Paterson New Jersey.

And Lou Costello was a boxer, too!

"As an amateur boxer in Paterson, New Jersey, Costello won 32 straight fights before being knocked out. The loss ended his boxing career."

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182579/bio

[Brutu]

You can see Lou Costello do a little boxing in the 1951 movie,
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN

here is a link to the trailer.
Which boxer does he sort of remind you of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVy5u8TKfOk

[Ilya Muromets]

"Which boxer does he sort of remind you of?"

Costello looks something like Tony Galento, too. Maybe Abbot and Costello should have brought Galento into their act. Maybe Max Baer, too.

Yeah, Lou dons the old boxing duds again in that movie. Movies have sure degenerated since then. De-evolution.

[Brutu]

I seem to remember reading from a newspaper article from around 1978,
that a writer in Orange New Jersey was writing a book about Tony Galento.
Galento was still alive then.I wonder if it was an autobiography?
The only thing else I remember was that it was a woman writer.
I wonder if there is an unpublished manuscript somewhere still in Orange NJ?

[Jaclem]

..not exactly into their act, but max baer is in the abbot and costello movie, "africa screams". brother buddy is in it too, and at one point the brothers fight each other.

[BoxBuzz]

I truly got a kick out of this!

[mrboxhist]

There is a good book about Tony Galento.
Highly recommended.

Joseph Monniger
Two Ton. One Fight, One Night. Tony Galento vs Joe Louis. Steerforth Press, New Hampshire 2006 (208 pp)

Yes, Tony was quite a character...

Christer Franzén
Stockholm, Sweden

[Brutu]

Here was some advice(suggestions?) a 62 year old Tony Galento gave to
Ron Stander just before Stander's title fight with Joe Frazier.
(scroll up to see photo of Galento and Stander)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Nx ... 2012943&dq

[Brutu]

Back in the 1970's growing up.One rarely saw the old fights on television.
You usually had to read a book and then try to imagine what the fight must have been like
from the photographs and the text.
There was a syndicated show back around 1976 called THE WAY IT WAS,
that interviewed some of the famous athletes and had shown their events.
Here is Joe Louis and Tony Galento.
(originally aired January.29.1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkC16GU8IE

[misterpunch]

nice guy, that tony galento

what was he doing with his elbow at about 40secs in ?

[HomicideHenry]

His rivalry/antics with Baer were well ahead of their time, either man would have drew a multi-million dollar gate with Muhammad Ali with no problem based on color and charisma alone.