News 12 is honoring boxer and bar owner ‘2 Ton’ Tony Galento. He was a boxer back in the 1930s and 1940s and is truly a “Jersey” character. He ran a bar in Orange and fought on the side. He was born ...

On June 28, 1939, in a heavyweight title fight, a very fat man knocked down the champion Joe Louis in the third round; Louis jumped to his feet and soon dispatched his opponent. From this slender ...

Two-Ton Tony Galento was a bartender and a buffoon but he carried, as biographer Joseph Monninger wrote, "the American Dream" in his left hook. That is the son of Italian immigrants, who was raised in ...

In the Stone Age a fight was simply a fight. A throwback to Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the ...