Editing Tony Canzoneri (section)

==Early life==
Canzoneri was born in Slidel, LA.  By the time he was 11 in 1920, the family had moved to Johnston City, Illinois.  In 1925, when he was 18, he lived in the  Bedford–Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn (his occupation in the 1925 New York census is listed as "prize fighter").  The 1930 U.S. census shows the family in Marlboro, New York.  In 1940 he was living on the Upper West Side, and the census indicates he had lived there since at least 1935.  Although Staten Island claims him, no records seem to exist of his residence there.  [[Staten Island, New York]],<ref>http://www.nypl.org/branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1391 Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders</ref> although he may have campaigned most of his career there.

Canzoneri fit the mould of the typical American boxer of the era: He could box up to three or four times in one month and up to 24 or 25 times in one year, and he would seldom fight outside [[New York City]], considered to be boxing's mecca at the time. Of his first 38 bouts, only one was fought west of New York City, and was in [[New Jersey]]. His first professional fight and win was against Jack Gardner in July 27, 1925. Canzoneri claimed he got the first knockout scored in the [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|new Madison Square Garden]] in a bout against Danny Terris on December 23 of the same year.<ref name="boxing.com">{{cite web |last1=Casey |first1=Mike |title=Unforgettable Greatness: Tony Canzoneri |url=http://www.boxing.com/unforgettable_greatness_tony_canzoneri.html |website=boxing.com |date=19 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930010519/http://www.boxing.com/unforgettable_greatness_tony_canzoneri.html |archive-date=2017-09-30}}</ref>