Tony Canzoneri vs Frankie Klick 2 || HIGHLIGHTS

On June 28, 1934, Tony Canzoneri defeated Klick in a ninth-round technical knockout when referee Patsy Haley stopped the bout at Ebbets field in Brooklyn. Haley, former lightweight boxer, would become one of the best known and trusted New York referees in history. Klick may have won the first two rounds but by the third Canzoneri had battered Klick with a strong right to the jaw, and began piling up points in the following rounds, landing a hard blow to the eye of Klick in the fifth which contributed to Haley’s decision to end the bout four rounds later. The winner of the bout would be matched with Barney Ross for the World Lightweight Crown