Antonio "Tony" Grano is an American heavyweight boxer. He was the US amateur heavyweight (201 lbs limit) champion

National Amateur Heavyweight Champions

Below is a list of National Amateur Boxing Heavyweight Champions, also known as US Amateur Champions, along with the state or region which they represented...

 in 2005.

Amateur highlights

2005

• National Golden Gloves Heavyweight competition
  • Defeated Arturo Reyes 5-0
  • Defeated Allen Grissom RSC 2
  • Defeated Erick Vega 3-2
  • Lost to Eric Fields
    Eric Fields
    Eric Fields is an American professional boxer from Ardmore, Oklahoma.-Amateur career:Fields started boxing in 2003 and became the 2005 and 2006 National Golden Gloves Heavyweight champion. In 2005 he beat Tony Grano, the U.S...
    
     1-4 in final, for 2nd place

• United States Amateur Heavyweight championships
  • Defeated Yuwshua Zoock 27-4
  • Defeated Tim Skolnik RSC 3
  • Defeated Marcus Henry
    Marcus Henry
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     14-10
  • Defeated Homer Fonesca RET 4, to win championship

Professional career

Grano, originally from Connecticut, now fights out of New York. Weighing 220 pounds, Italian-American "TNT" Grano made his debut in 2005 and has beaten 12 opponents so far. Against journeyman Rodney Ray (record 3-3), Grano could only draw. In 2008, he was upset by little-known 13-1 Mark Brown. In 2009, he rebounded with a KO

Knockout

A knockout is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and others sports involving striking...

 over previously undefeated (18-0) amateur star Travis Kauffman

Travis Kauffman

Travis Kauffman is an American heavyweight boxer nicknamed "The Great White Hope". His current record is 21-1 .-Growing Up:Travis Kauffman was raised by his father Marshall, a self-employed single parent of two boys...

. However, this win was disputed.

External links

• Tony Grano website