It just... makes sense. His name rhymes with pony, and he has a collection of My Little Pony pictures, and he admits to liking MLP generation 1...

GENTLEMEN, we are on to something.
I like generation one because it pisses the current pony cigarettes off, however I never seen a single episode of generation one.
I have a collection of Action Hank beating ponies to a bloody pulp, if that's what you mean.
Because Tony just so happened to have three similar letters in pony, derp.