Anthony Bonsante

Anthony "The Bullet" Bonsante (born October 28, 1970 in Crosby, Minnesota) is a professional boxer and competitor on reality TV show The Contender. He also works overnight as a supervisor at a distribution center.

Bonsante is a father of two children, and he looks to them for much of his inspiration, especially in the ring. He is very much proud of his children and his work ethic.

He was a contestant on reality TV show The Contender, shortly before which he fought future contestant Peter Manfredo and lost. That fight was Manfredo's first defence of the WBO and NABA Light Middleweight Titles. Bonsante had previously won a fight for the vacant IBU Super Middleweight Title.

On the show, he was placed on the West Coast team and fought Brent Cooper in the sixth First Round fight. He won in his characteristic aggressive style. However, he was meant to fight Jimmy Lange, and an argument ensued over his choosing not to do so - Ishe Smith in particular become infuriated at his conduct. Tarick Salmaci was the only boxer to accept that he had fought well.

After running into an uppercut from Jesse Brinkley in the quarter finals despite having had the upper hand with his characteristically aggressive boxing style was knocked into a daze, and found himself flat on the canvas. His feud with Ishe continued as they fought in a Fans Favourite Fight on finals night - trying an illegal move on him before going on to lose.

Bonsante fought a rematch with Jesse Brinkley on The Contender Rematch Reality Show. Out punching and out-pointing the very fighter he lost to on the original series. Though the ringside announcers gave the fight to Tony, the judges awarded the victory to Brinkley.

In July 2006, he was beaten by Super Middleweight prospect Allan Green on ESPN.

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