rank your top five in o.c...the results should be interesting. don't be ashamed to enjoy this great thread of mine.

1. Crazy Joe Gallo
2. Bugsy Siegel
3. Sonny Franzese
4. Carmine Galante
5. Albert Anastasia

Excellent thread.....

For balls: if you crossed these guys, you were definitely gonna go.
1. Carmine Gallante
2. Aniello Dellacroce
3. Al Capone
4. Anthony Casso
5. Greg Scarpa


For ass kicking brawn: these guys would put a beating on you all by themselves.
1. Tommy Pitera
2. Sammy the bull Gravano
3. Vincent the chin Gigante
4. Fat Pete Chiodo (honorary Gorilla Award winner)
5a. (tie) Paulie Gualtieri (Paulie Walnuts from Sopranos)
5b. (tie) Dominick Montiglio

1. Sal Testa

Testa was really tough. he nearly got him arm blown off by a shotgun and still was back on the streets doing muscle work

1. Albert Anastasia
2. Roy DeMeo
3. Greg Scarpa
4. Joe Gallo
5. Anthony Casso (tie)
5. Carmine Galante (tie)

Apparently, according to wiki Galante has a son called James Galante a Bonanno Capo? When you click on his name it goes to a James Galante who is a Genovese associate who raked in the $$$$$

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Galante

"The son of a fisherman, Galante, whose actual birth name was Camillo Galante was born in an East Harlem tenement to Vincenzo "James" Galante and Vincenza Russo, who had immigrated from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily in 1906. His career in crime started when he was only 11, forming a juvenile street gang on New York's Lower East Side. He is the father of Bonanno family reputed capo James Galante."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galante


does anybody know the scoop on james galante?

1) Salvie Testa

2)Aniello Delacroce

3)John Veasey ( the guy took 3 bullets to the head and 1 to the chest and still wrestled the knife out of Martinez' hands and stabbed him in the eye)

4)Joe Gallo

5)Frank Nitti

Honorable mention goes to Harry Riccobene because at age 71 he over powered 24 year old Wayne Grande after taking 3 bullets and took the gun away from him.

Yes, big props to the Hunchback. I saw the interview where he describes it. He had no fear.

But Nitti? He whacked himself rather than go back to the can. Where I am from, can you say P U S S Y!

how about sam destanfo?

Well...DeStefano may have been the nastiest mf, but I've never heard of him being exceptionally tough. Maybe he was.

I don`t know I think you have to be pretty strong willed to commit suicide I could not imagine ever putting a gun to my head and pulling the trigger no matter how bad things got. I don`t think he is a Pussy I Mean he didnt Rat or Run He was like 55 He didnt wanna go to jail he made a choice that was his to make.

Luca Brasi, ofcourse.

I'd say so. He loses an eye in a gun fight and goes home and pours himself a drink while waiting for the cops.

Actually he had terminal cancer which is the main reason he shot himself. And I doubt being a p u s s y is a character trait of someone who rises to the top of the Chicago outfit.

1 Tommy Pitera 2 Anthony Rampino 3John Veasey 4Sal Testa 5Chris Paciello [might take some heat for Paciello because he was a rat but they said he was one bad-ass mother-fucker,could really handle himself well

Anthony "Tumac" Accenturo
Bobby Borrelio
Eddie Lino
Greg Scarpa
Greg Scarpa JR
Joe Pistone ( I know he was an agent and he is also a "self proclaimed" tough guy. but if you believe anything he has said he doesnt take any shit off anyone and can throw a mean hook)

Carmine Galante, Carmine Persico, Hunchback( He did that do wayne and also fought off another attacker around that time as well), Testa. my 5th is Gallo.

Veasey gets my honorable mention.

Hymie Weiss
Albert Anastasia
Frank (Dasher) Abandando
Carmine Galante
Joey Gallo

Anthony 'the Ant' Spilotro was pretty tough no? At least Joe Pesci was in Casino. Ah, what the hell, I recommend Joe Pesci.

And talking about Spilotro, I also recommend "Billy McCarthy". Refusing to name an accomplice until you're head is put into a vise and you're eyes pop out would surely qualify as "tough motherfucker".

Yeah the story about Scarpa is just crazy.Carmine Persico also had alledgedly spat out a bullet that entered his face but it was probably bullshit.

Casso is up there too.He got hit by bullets and buckshot from a shotgun,then sat in a restaurant freezer for what must have been at least an hour or two,then walked to a payphone and made a call.And and the hospital he refused to have the bullets extracted,he went home the next day with lead still lodged in his back

i would like to hear your reasoning why you put scarpa jr on there.

my list would be

1)aneilo dellacroce
2)crazy joe gallo
3)carmine persico
4)salvie testa
5)jimmy burke (if the stories are true)

no doubt...tony montana

Chris Paciello gets on the Toughest Juiced Motherf***er list (aka the Jose Canseco tough guy list). Roid rage offers an ass kicking advantage. The fact that he is a rat, and was never made also means he gets an asterisk (aka the Roger Maris, which still pisses me off).

Hello "gentlemen", very cool forum, alot of laughs and interesting debates so it's a pleasure to be a member here. Having said that I'll post my top five, culled from second hand knowledge, ie-reading many mob books, because I don't know any "connected" people. Let me know how off-base I am.

1. Albert Anastasia
2. Roy DeMeo
3. Tommy Agro
4. Louie Milito
5. Willie "Boy" Johnson- went "bad" but is half-Italian/half indian, that's a good combination for a "bad" boy

i see alot of people putting demeo on here. i find him the most interesting gangster and if you want to go as to call him my fav i guess you could do this. he was very psycopathic and cruel but i don't know how tough he really was. he def had a tough stomach. but also killed a man who gave him a black eye. although the line he muttered about the guy who gave him a black eye was "last important thing he will ever do!"

the weakest mammas boy: Kenji Gallo look what this fanuuk is doing now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MNLvRI5vp0
Orange County in SOCAL is the last place the mob should be recruiting from

my god! he wasn't even under any charges to snitch! god do i hate him! im glad he has those fkn cauliflower ears in this video. i wish he would have gotten in with a stronger family besides mickey mouse or the sinking ships so he could have gotten whacked the first day he came around. sorry to rant but i just have no respect for him, he theories, his blogs, his facebooks or anything!!!!!!!

I know the FBI flipped him by saying we know who you are now it`s over. It would take a colombo to get a fruitcake like this into the mob He reminds me of chow from the hangover.

agreed, i enjoyed his blogs only for his rants against teddy persico and the colombos and all the shit that people used to post on the comments, if I didnt know any better I would def say some connected guys posted there considering what they were saying/their details

Do you have any links to the blogs and rants? I would love to check them out.