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	Tony Zale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tony Zale (May 29, 1913 - March 20, 1997) (real name Anthony Florian Zaleski), "the man of steel" was an American boxer.
		Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname.
		Zale is best remembered for his three bouts over a 21 month period with Rocky Graziano for the middleweight crown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Zale (451 words)

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		Zale regained his crown zales galesburg and won the match by a knockout in the third round.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Tony Zale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After flooring Graziano in the first round, Zale took a savage beating from Graziano, and was on the verge of losing the fight by TKO.
		The rematch, a year later in Chicago, was a mirror image of their first fight.
		His age and the many ring wars he fought seemed to catch up with him in his next fight against Eurpoean Champion Marcel Cerdan, who stopped him in the eleventh round to win the middleweight championship of the world.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Tony_Zale (399 words)

	Rocky Graziano - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Graziano was world Middleweight champion, and he fought Tony Zale in one of boxing's most storied rivalries ever.
		In the first fight, at Yankee Stadium in 1946, Zale recovered from a knockdown to stop Graziano in the sixth round.
		Zale ended the series and took back the title with a brutal third-round knockout in 1948.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Rocky_Graziano (424 words)

	SLAM! Sports Stats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Known as the "Man of Steel," Zale rose to middleweight champion in 1941 and had a career record of 70-18-2 with 46 knockouts.
		Zale rallied to retain his title in his first fight with Graziano in 1946, but Graziano won the following year.
		Zale knocked out Graziano in the third round of a 1948 rematch but lost his title three months later to French boxer Marcel Cerdan.
	www.canoe.ca /StatsBOX/BC-BOX-LGNS-ZALEOBOT-R.html (135 words)

	IBHOF / Tony Zale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		NOWN as "The Man of Steel," middleweight champion Tony Zale is best remembered for his thrilling three-fight series with fellow Hall-of-Famer Rocky Graziano.
		Zale, now 33, was still recognized as champion when the war ended and thus began his series with Graziano.
		So exciting were Zale's fights that two of the Graizano contests and the Cerdan fight were named Fight of The Year by Ring Magazine.
	www.ibhof.com /zale.htm (380 words)

	Zales Credit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zale is best remembered for his three bout series with Rocky Graziano for the middleweight crown.
		Zale served in World War II, was thirty-four years old, and had been inactive for about four years.
		Zale regained his crown and won the match going away by knockout in the third round.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/222/zales-credit.html (1280 words)

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		TONY ZALE GAVE IT ALL HE HAD by Bill Kelly Facing Tony Zale in the ring was depressing, like sitting next to Don King in a life boat.
		Tony Zale was not the best middleweight to ever step into the battle pit but he was a goring, stomping bull of a man who dodged no one.
		Zale told this writer, "We both knew it was the end of the line for the loser." The "Man of Steel" was thirty-two, with twelve years ring experience under his belt and a champion who hadn't defended his title since 1941.
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	ESPN Classic - Zale shows heart, KOs Graziano in sixth
		Tony Zale won the middleweight championship in 1941, but he hadn't had a title defense in almost five years because he enlisted in the Navy.
		Zale knocks down the challenger from the Bronx in the first round, but Rocky recovers and knocks down Zale at the end of the second.
		Showing the heart of a champion, Zale, though having suffered a broken thumb earlier in the bout, gathers the strength to somehow fire a terrific right to Graziano's solar plexus and follows it up with a left hook to the chin.
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	Boxing News : The Rock of the ÔGreatest GenerationÕ
		Zale then came back in the sixth and caught the defenseless Graziano with a hard left hook.
		Early on Zale cut Graziano over his left eye and battered the challenger with left hooks to the body, eventually flooring the game challenger in the third.
		Graziano and Zale would do it a third time, but it was clear that the first two fights had taken so much out of both men.
	www.maxboxing.com /Stowell/stowell012703.asp (883 words)

	Fight of the Decade: 1940-1949 Tony Zale vs. Rocky Graziano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zale demonstrated early that he was a champion who came to win.
		Graziano caught Zale in the 2nd with a flurry of power punches that had Tony on the brink of defeat.
		Zale's lip was spit, his face badly swollen.
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	Sweet Science-Boxing
		In Zale's case, his fight with Marcel Cerdan three months after he regained the title from Rocky on June 10, 1948, was his finale.
		The heat was so intense that by the fifth round, Zale said, the Vaseline used to protect his eyes had melted and "was running into my eyes." Tony floored Rocky but New York's favorite delinquent bounced up without a count and waded into another barrage.
		Tony was hanging over the ropes as helpless as a tackling dummy on chains.
	www.gamemasteronline.com /Archive/SweetScience/TonyZale.shtml (1910 words)

	ESPN Classic - Graziano fought epic battles with Zale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zale pummeled his opponent against the ropes as the round ended.
		After winning the title from Zale, the National Boxing Association asked for a ban in many of the states for Graziano, who was under suspension by New York for failure to report a bribe for a fight that never took place.
		Tony Janiro, a slick Philadelphia fighter, fought to a draw with Rocky in March 1950 and Graziano won a close decision later that year.
	sports.espn.go.com /classic/s/grazianorockyadd.html (739 words)

	Recall and the Rematch \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Zale was in control in the first four rounds of the rematch.
		Zale also was in deep trouble in the third and fifth rounds before knocking out Graziano with a right to the body and left hook to the jaw in the sixth round.
		Zale, who had held the middleweight title since 1941, was in control in the first four rounds of the rematch, knocking Graziano down in the third round and ripping a cut over his left eye.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2708/recall-rematch (1685 words)

	Doghouse Boxing
		Rocky Graziano was to face Tony Zale at Yankee Stadium in the first of their three fights.
		After Zale got up, Graziano drove him to the ropes with a stinging flurry of punches that caused the ref to stop the fight.
		Zale won the title back on June 10, 1948 with a 3rd round knockout.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /Trabucco/Trabucco051904.htm (734 words)

	Tony Zale vs. Rocky Graziano : View Item : Jepazon : By: Jepaonline : In Association with Amazon.com : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sadly, while their second fight, also never filmed, appears to have been lost for posterity, you will be able to hear the classic third fight, held in 1948, through the magic of the radio broadcast and Don Dunphy's electrifying commentary.
		When world middleweight champion Tony Zale, a product of the tough steel mills of Gary, Indiana, returned to boxing after three years in the navy during World War II, he faced a field of challengers including such tough men as Holman Williams, Charley Burley, Bert Lytell, the Cocoa Kid, and Jake LaMotta.
		Rocky was actually favored over Tony, but no one guessed at the dynamic treat in store for the 40,000 fight fans gathered at Yankee Stadium on September 27, 1946 to enjoy one of the most explosive nights in all sports history.
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		In the first, a middleweight championship fight on September 27, 1946, Zale seemed on the verge of collapse under Graziano's pounding, but he suddenly scored a 6th-round knockout to hold onto the title.
		The third Graziano-Zale fight was held in Newark on June 10, 1948, and Zale regained the title with a 3rd-round knockout.
		Graziano won 20 of his next 21 fights, but he was knocked out in the 3rd round by Sugar Ray Robinson in a middleweight championship fight on April 16, 1952.
	www.ringwork.com /Bios.aspx?BioBoxer=66 (410 words)

	Tony Zale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His age and the many ring wars he fought seemed to catch up with him in his next fight against European Champion Marcel Cerdan, who stopped him in the eleventh round to win the middleweight championship of the world.
		All three Graziano fights and the Cerdan fight were awarded "fights of the year" by Ring Magazine.
		The authors list is available on this page.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Tony_Zale (440 words)

	1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 9 - Yachtsman Tony Bullimore found alive five days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean
		Tony Blair, appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 2, 1997
		March 20 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1997 (4757 words)

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	ROCKY GRAZIANO - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: TONY ZALE
		On September 27, 1946, TONY ZALE (1913-1997) retained the World Middleweight Championship he had held since 1941 by knocking out ROCKY GRAZIANO (1922-1990) in the sixth round.
		On July 16, 1947, Graziano knocked out Zale in the sixth round to win the title.
		Zale regained the championship by knocking out Graziano in the third round on June 10, 1948.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/1_2002/sports/ROCKY_GRAZIANO.htm (175 words)

	Tony Zale v. Rocky Graziano III Vintage Original On-Site Full Ticket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The fist plows into my jaw and it was like somebody picked me up and slammed me on the floor.
		The lights have fallen down and Zale and the referee are spinning around me like they were on bicycles..."
		I got on my feet, which are still numb, and stumbled backwards until I forced some feeling into them....It is time for the kill, but this time it is me that's getting killed and I can't lift a hand to stop it.
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	Tony Zale
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	Tony Zale: The Man of Steel
		Fighters that had stellar careers, but just never seemed to become household names like the aforementioned greats.
		Fans seem to recall his greatest rival, Rocky Graziano, more readily than Tony, even though Zale won 2 of their 3 fights.
		He was a 2-time World Middleweight Champ and had an impressive career record of 67-18-2 with 45 Ko’s (they FOUGHT in those days) and was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
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	Find in a Library: [Tony Zale, half-length portrait, facing front, in boxing trunks]
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	Internantional Boxing Hall of Fame / Ring Magazine Awards
		1946 -- Tony Zale KO 6 Rocky Graziano
		1947 -- Rocky Graziano KO 6 Tony Zale
		1948 -- Marcel Cerdan KO 12 Tony Zale
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		Program, Testimonial to Coach Rolfe, Emerson Football Coach, 1962
		Text, "Tony Zale: Middleweight Champion", (WYIN program), aired March 4, 1999
		Article, "Great Rivalries No. 1: Graziano vs. Zale", Sport, September 1969
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