On This Day In Boxing History!

1913: The Man of Steel” Tony Zale Was Born!

Tony Zale  

Born: May 29th, 1913

Birth Name: Anthony Florian Zaleski

Birth Place: Gary, Indiana

Residence: Chicago, Illinois

Pro-Debut:  June 11th, 1934

Division: Middleweight

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 5′ 7½″  

Reach: 69″  

Alias: Man of Steel

Bouts: 87

Rounds: 501

Ko’s: 52%

Record: 67-18-2, 45Ko’s

Died: Age 83, March 20th, 1997

Career

NBA World Middleweight Champion

July 19th, 1940 – July 16th, 1947

NYSAC World Middleweight Champion

November 28th, 1941 – July 16th, 1947 

World Middleweight Champion

June 10th, 1948 – September 21st, 1948

International Boxing Hall of Fame 1991

***November 5th, 2015 Championship Belts of Tony Zale

and Carmen Basillio, stolen from the Hall of Fame

May 29th

1900: Kid McCoy W6 Tommy Ryan

1901: Terry McGovern KO5 Aurelio Herrera

1905: Joe Bowker W20 Pinky Evans

1909: Battling Nelson KO23 Dick Hyland

1913: Harry Greb ND6 Frank Kirkwood

Tony Zale was born

1914: Jack Dillon ND10 Battling Levinsky

1933: Jimmy McLarnin KO1 Young Corbett III

1971: Eric Lucas born.

1977: Rafael Ortega W15 Yasutsune Uehara

1982: Rafael Limon KO12 Rolando Navarette

1988: Don LaLonde KO5 Leslie Stewart

Daniel Zaragoza D 12 Seung Hoon Lee

1993: Billy Conn, 75, dies.

1998: Reggie Johnson W12 Ole Klemetsen

Hugo Soto W12 Jose Bonilla

1999: Felix Trinidad KO4 Hugo Pineda

Freddy Norwood W12 Antonio Cermeno

Lehlo Ledwaba W12 John Michael Johnson

Leo Gamez KO8 Josue Dickie Camacho

2009: Oleydong Sithsamerchai TD11 Muhammad Rachman

2010: Vitali Klitschko KO10 Albert Sosnowski

Luis Alberto Lazarte WSD12 Carlos Tamara

Miguel Acosta KO2 Paulus Moses

Wilfredo Vazquez Jr TKO10 Zsolt Bedak

Roman Martinez KO4 Gonzalo Munguia

Hanna Gabriels TKO1 Gardy Pena Alvarez

2015: Amir Khan W12 Chris Algieri

Javier Fortuna W12 Bryan Vasquez

2016: Tony Bellew TKO3 Ilunga Makabu