Tony Canzoneri Featherweight Champion 1927

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	His nickname was the diminutive "Canzi," short for Canzoneri. But other than his size, nothing else was small about Tony Canzoneri, a shooting star of unforgettable magnitude. Possessed of the hands of an artisan, not the laborer's hands of his Italian forbears, "Canzi" was a puncher who could punch and a boxer who could box, one of the greatest combination ringmen of all time. With inexhaustible energy, Canzoneri would tirelessly pressure his opponent, ready to drop his deadly right with such precision that one writer said of his power punch, "If you crossed him, he would dot your eyes," or swing his low-held lethal left with bludgeoning effect. Canzi's foes usually took on the look of a boilerplate, bearing hundreds of hammer marks and rivets put into place by this miniature boilermaker who came complete with a cast-iron jaw.
	Bert Randolph Sugar Canzoneri ranked #9