page_title: Tony Zale
section_title: World Middleweight Title match against Georgie Abrams, November 1941
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Zale / World Middleweight Title match against Georgie Abrams, November 1941
caption_attribution_description: ORIGINAL 1941 TONY ZALE, MIDDLEWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION WIRE PHOTO 8X11
context_page_description: Tony Zale, born Anthony Florian Zaleski, was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel". In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname. Zale, who held the World Middleweight title multiple times, was known as a crafty boxer and strong body puncher who punished his opponents and steadily wore them down before knocking them out.
context_section_description: Zale met Georgie Abrams in Madison Square Garden in a World Middleweight Championship match on November 28, 1941 before a crowd of nearly 10,000.  Despite knocking Zale down in the first round, a poke in the eye from Zale's glove left him with pain and blurred vision. From the fourth round on, Abrams fought with his left eye nearly closed.  Blood from a cut opened above his right eye in the third from an accidental head butt from Zale caused additional vision problems from blood that dripped from the wound. Despite fighting half blind, Abrams fought courageously for fifteen rounds.  The Associated Press actually placed Abrams with the win at eight rounds to Zale's seven. Abrams lost in a close match, due to the incessant body attacks of Zale in the late rounds, particularly the ninth where he received a severe two handed attack to the midsection.
caption: Tony Zale in 1941
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