Tony Unitas (March 7, 1924 - January 29, 1991) was a retired boxer, promoter, and founder of the Toronto Newsboys Athletic Club, in Toronto, Canada, where he served as a manager and trainer.
In the early 1940s, Tony Unitas boxed in the Military and became Pacific Fleet Middleweight Champion from 1942 to 1944.
In the 1960s, Unitas founded what he called the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame.[1] It began out of his gym and was officially opened and later recorded in the archives on January 2, 1970.[2] He also created 'The Unitas Weekly', a Canadian boxing news magazine.
In 1983, the Toronto promoter was involved in a female boxing controversy in Ontario when provincial authorities forced him to cancel a scheduled exhibition match between two female boxers, Suzanne Hotchkiss and Lanay Browning, citing a decades-old law forbidding female boxing.[3]
In 1985, he was featured on one of Brown's Boxing Cards as a manager with 45 years in the profession.[4]
Tony Unitas died on January 29, 1991.[5]
- ↑ https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Canadian_Boxing_Hall_of_Fame
- ↑ https://edmontonsun.com/2012/10/02/greig-canadian-boxers-deserve-their-own-hall-of-fame
- ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/18/Two-female-boxers-and-their-supporters-expressed-outrage-Sunday/6399432705600/
- ↑ https://www.tcdb.com/GalleryP.cfm/pid/44467/Tony-Unitas
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/image/946574616/?match=1&terms=tony%20unitas