By Robert Mladinich

The newest member of the Veteran Boxers Association, Ring 8, in New York City, is Frank Albanese, a hard-punching heavyweight from the 1940s who is now an actor.

Although his pro boxing career consisted of 10 fights, all of which he says he won by knockout, he is better known as Uncle Pat Blundetto, the role he played on four episodes of “The Sopranos” television show between 2004 and 2007.

His character was the owner of a country farm who was suffering from dementia. He couldn’t remember where the bodies were buried when the characters played by James Gandolfini and Steve Buscemi came to dig them up because a condominium complex was going to be built on the property. VIEW FULL STORY…