Career
Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Petrolle as the #18 ranked lightweight of all-time. In 1932 the two met for the World Lightweight Title, and Canzoneri was "squarely at his peak: a Canzoneri so magnificently conditioned, so beautifully attuned that even the old-timers at the ringside admitted he was worthy to stand alongside the lightweight giants of the past" (United Press). Petrolle dropped a decision in the bout at Madison Square Garden.
Petrolle retired during the Great Depression with $200,000 and an iron foundry in Duluth, Minnesota.
He later owned a religious goods and gift shop in Duluth, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pioneer National Bank.