GR EXCLUSIVE: Sally Bread’s Successor As Captain In The Colombo Mob Already Decided, Fmr. Pro Boxer Gets Skipper Nod
October 7, 2024 — Word on the street is “The Boxer” is the next man up in “Sally Bread’s” old crew. It should be a smooth transition.
Per multiple sources on both sides of the law, Vincent (Vinny the Boxer) Maddalone will succeed recently-deceased Colombo mob capo Salvatore (Sally Bread” Cambria as skipper in a promotion that was already put in stone by Colombo shot callers before Cambria cashed in his chips over the weekend. The 50-year old Maddalone boxed professionally for a decade and a half, accumulating a 37-8 win-loss record in the ring, with high-profile bouts against championship fighters Evander Holyfield and Tyson Fury. ESPN data from the late 1990s and 2000s showed he was ratings draw, bringing in viewers from across the globe with his brawler style and eager engagement with his opponents off the ropes and slugging it out toe-to-toe in the center of the prized circle.
“Vinny the Boxer” hung up his gloves at the end of 2013 and allegedly gravitated to the mafia in Brooklyn and his home stomping grounds of Queens, becoming a bodyguard, collector and protege of Sally Bread’s. Maddalone was allegedly made into the Colombos in a 2019 ceremony and tapped as Cambria’s eventual replacement in the past few years after Cambria suffered a non-fatal stroke and encountered a series of unexpected health ailments.
Turncoat Lucchese mob soldier John Pennisi first mentioned Maddalone as a player in the world of NYC LCN on his Sitdown News podcast three years ago. According to court filings and FBI intelligence, sly and well-liked Sally Bread Cambria served as acting boss of the Colombo organization between 2012 and 2014. Cambria, 73, passed from a stroke suffered Friday night.
