Two Ton: One Night, One Fight: Tony Galento v. Joe Louis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586421380)

An "exceptional" account of underdog boxer Tony Galento's surprising 1939 victory against renowned heavyweight champion Joe Louis (The Boston Globe)

Beetle-browed, nearly bald, a head that rode his collarbones like a bowling ball returning on rails, his waist size more than half his five-foot-eight height, Two Ton Tony Galento resembled "a taxi driving away with its top down." By all measures he stood no chance when he stepped into the ring against the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, the finest heavyweight of his generation. But in Yankee Stadium on a June night in 1939, he entered the record books as one of the few men to put the great Louis down. For two splendid seconds he stood on the mat as the Joe Louis lay before him, champ of the world, the toughest man alive--the mythical hero of a nation little more than a year away from war. "I'll moida da bum," he had predicted. And though Louis was no bum, Galento was almost as good as his word.

Joe Monninger's spellbinding portrait of a man, a moment, and an era reminds us that sometimes it is through effort--and not the end result--that people most enduringly define themselves.

Author: Joseph Monninger
ISBN-10: 1586421387
ISBN-13: 9781586421380
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.54w x 0.56d