Tony Marino (boxer)
| Tony Marino | |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Anthony Marino |
| Rated at | Bantamweight |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Nationality |
 American |
| Born |
May 18, 1912 Duquesne, Pennsylvania |
| Died | February 1, 1937 (aged 24) Brooklyn, New York |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 44 |
| Wins | 28 |
| Wins by KO | 7 |
| Losses | 14 |
| Draws | 2 |
Tony Marino (May 18, 1912 – February 1, 1937) was an American boxer who became the World Bantamweight Champion on June 29, 1936 when he defeated Baltasar Sangchili in a fourteenth round knockout in New York. Marino had the famous trainer Ray Arcel and managers Reed Brown and Bill Newman. He died on February 1, 1937 of injuries he received from his bout with boxer Carlos Quintana, two days earlier in Brooklyn. On February 3, 1937, the New York State Athletic Commission, citing Marino's death, created the three-knockdown rule, which is now universal in the sport of boxing.
Tony Marino was born into a large and close Italian family on May 18, 1912 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents, Anthony and Mary, would eventually have ten children, giving Tony a total of six sisters and three brothers. His older brother Charles would take the ringname Tommy Ryan, and become an accomplished boxer himself, competing for the World Bantamweight Title in 1924.
Tony was named after his father, who eventually settled the family on South Fifth Street in Duquesne. Marino was known as a studied boxer, not a strong puncher, though he had a good left hand, and a short, but accomplished career.
According to one source, Marino fought as many as eighty bouts before becoming a professional, though many were as short as three rounds. As an amateur, Marino represented Pittsburgh at the National tournament in Boston with team mate, Ted Yarosz, also a Pittsburgh area native. Yarosz would take the 1934 NYSAC Middleweight Championship.
He fought his first well publicized professional bout at the age of eighteen on July 2, 1930 winning in six rounds against Young Ketchell in North Braddock, Pennsylvania. He beat Ketchell again on May 20, 1932 in an eight round Unanimous Decision at Stanton Park Arena in Steubenville, Ohio.
On March 14, 1932 he decisively defeated Joey Ross in an eight round Split Decision at Motor Square Garden in Pittsburgh. Marino carried much of the fight with terrific combinations of rights and left hooks, but Ross finished strong, and won the last round, when Marino may have begun to fatigue. At least one reporter at ringside felt Marino had won all but the sixth and eighth rounds.
On January 21, 1932 he defeated Marty Gold at the Palisades Rink in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in a ten round points decision. As one of his earliest bouts with a more experienced boxer, the Pittsburgh Post, wrote that Marino had "met his hardest test, ...and survived it." He won the important and well publicized match by a unanimous decision of the judges. Marino staggered Gold with a left hook in the sixth, but was warned for low blows in the early rounds. In what was not entirely a one-sided bout, Gold knocked Marino to a sitting posture in the last round though some at ringside considered it one of Gold's few solidly landed blows.
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