Word: galento
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...just hit 'em and they go ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!" For the last five years barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, a New Jersey saloonkeeper, has made this boast to anyone within earshot. And for five years everyone within earshot has smiled at the pasty, pudgy little prattler and his self-appraised ability to knock out the best prizefighter in the world. He looked as unfit for the prize ring as a dachshund for a greyhound race...
...manager, shrewd Oldtimer Joe Jacobs, Two-Ton Tony (weight 233!) was given his chance against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been given such a jocular press. Boxing experts noted that 29-year-old Galento had been around for eleven years, had been defeated 22 times, was a slow-moving human tub whose boxing technique consisted of roughhouse butting, wrestling, sticking thumbs in opponents' eyes. They agreed that the little fat man had nothing but a roundhouse left, elephantiasis...
Crouched over so that the effect was that of a turtle trying to annoy a mastiff, Galento looped up and over with his left, time after time, during the first round. He even crowded Louis to the ropes, belaboring him picturesquely but not damagingly...
...second, Louis, peering down mastiff-like for an opening, let go. Over went Turtle Galento on his back. But he got back on his feet and in the third he even caught the mastiff off balance and rolled him over for a count of one. After that it was like all Louis fights, save the one he lost to Schmeling. He straightened the turtle up and subjected him to a swift and terrible mauling...
After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even...