Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Two Ton: One Night, One Fight - Tony Galento v. Joe Louis

  • By: Joseph Monninger
  • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
  • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Two Ton: One Night, One Fight - Tony Galento v. Joe Louis cover art

Two Ton: One Night, One Fight - Tony Galento v. Joe Louis

By: Joseph Monninger
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £10.99

Buy Now for £10.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Beast cover art
Little Evil cover art
The Age of Daredevils cover art
Flat Water Tuesday cover art
The Typist cover art
Life Is a Circus cover art
The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories cover art
The Hornet cover art
The Ballad of Les Darcy cover art
The Philosopher's Flight cover art
The Good Son cover art
To Speak for the Dead cover art
The Perfect Mile cover art
John Henry Days cover art
The Rules of Backyard Cricket cover art
The Fight cover art

Summary

Beetle-browed, nearly bald, with a head that rode his collarbones like a bowling ball returning on rails, his waist size more than half his five-foot, eight-inch height, Two Ton Tony Galento resembled, according to Collier's magazine writer Jack Miley, ''a taxi driving away with its top down.'' By all measures he stood no chance when he stepped into the ring against the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, the finest heavyweight of his generation.

But in Yankee Stadium on a June night in 1939 he entered the record books as one of the few men to put the great Louis down. For two splendid seconds he stood on the mat as the Joe Louis lay before him, champ of the world, the toughest man alive, the mythical hero of a nation little more than a year away from war. ''I'll moida da bum,'' he had predicted. And though Louis was no bum, Galento was almost as good as his word.

©2006 Joseph Monninger (P)2011 Joseph Monninger

Critic reviews

"[Monninger] displays a sure feeling for the eccentricities and color of the era, and he has a novelist's ability to put the reader in the moment. In Monninger's hands, all 'two tons' of Tony come alive." ( Publishers Weekly)
"The fight reportage is gripping, and while there's certainly nothing new here about Louis, Monninger's descriptions of Galento paint a portrait of one of boxing's great antiheroes." ( Booklist)

What listeners say about Two Ton: One Night, One Fight - Tony Galento v. Joe Louis

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.