
"Taxi" cruised onto ABC in 1978 and introduced TV viewers to the lovable crew at the Sunshine Cab Company. Among the eccentric drivers, Tony Danza played a boxer with more dreams than victories, moonlighting as a cabbie between getting knocked out. What was the name of the guy who kept climbing back into the ring despite his 8-24 record?
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Tony Danza played Tony Banta, and no, you you didn't read that wrong, the name was really just that similar. And while the last name might've come from a friend of "Taxi" co-creator James L. Brooks, the similarity makes sense when you consider Danza was a boxer at the time he was cast in the role. He retired from the ring with a 8-3 record, which probably means "Taxi" Tony could've used a lesson or two from real Tony.
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