This text brings to your consideration among the finest, favourite, and well-known Latino and Spanish fighters.
This author’s all-time favourite boxer was Puerto Rico’s Carlos Ortiz, 61-7-1 with 30 stoppages, who held the WBA and WBC world light-weight titles and moved to New York. I met him a number of instances, together with on the IBHOF inductions.
At Ali’s Deer Lake camp and at a resort in Harrisburg, PA. I met my No. 2 favourite Cuba’s Child ‘The Cuban Hawk’ Gavilan, 108-30-5 with 28 stoppages, who held the NBA world welterweight title.
He was writing about Blinky Palmero the supervisor of Johnny Saxon who robbed him and Cuba’s Fidel Castro who robbed him of his property in Cuba.
I requested if he had a duplicate of his document and he stated he didn’t so I gave him a duplicate of Ring Encyclopedia. He was well-known for his ‘bolo punch’ from chopping sugar cane in Cuba.
My No. 3 was welterweight champion Luis ‘El Fio’ Manuel Rodriguez, 107-13 with 49 stoppages from Cuba. All had been inducted into the IBHOF.
When Cuban boxers left the island of Cuba, they normally got here to Florida. Some went to Mexico like world welterweight champion Jose ‘Mantequilla’ Napoles, 81-7 with 54 stoppages, and Spain like WBC Featherweight champion Jose ‘Pocket Cassius Clay’ Legra, 129-11-4 with 49 stoppages.
No. 9 on the checklist of essentially the most profitable boxers is Mexico’s Child Azteca, 193-49-11, with 114 stoppages. Puerto Rico’s Cocoa Child, 179-58-11 with 48 stoppages, led to New Haven, CT.
Luis Romero, 158-19-6 with 78 stoppages, was born in Morocco and boxed out of Spain. One other from Spain was Fred Galiana, 156-22-13, with 90 stoppages.
Cuba’s Angel Robinson Garcia, 138-80-21 with 55 stoppages, got here to the US and lived in a number of European international locations. Spain’s Luis Folledo, 129-6-1 with 50 stoppages, was additionally a bullfighter previous to boxing.
Panama’s Roberto ‘Fingers of Stone’ Duran, 103-16 with 70 stoppages, held four-division world titles. I met him at ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s fitness center, and he didn’t communicate English, however might he skip rope.
I met Nicaragua’s Alexis ‘Skinny Man’ Arguello, 77-8 with 62 stoppages, a three-time division world champion. He was an actual class act.
World Middleweight champion Carlos Monzon, 87-3-9, with 59 stoppages, and my all-time favourite Flyweight and 1948 Olympic Gold Medalist world flyweight champion Pascual Perez, 84-7-1, with 57 stoppages, had been from Argentina.
The three-division world champion from Puerto Rico was Felix ‘Tito’ Trinidad, 42-3, with 35 stoppages. The three-division world champion from Puerto Rico was Wilfredo ‘Bazooka’ Gomez, 44-3-1, with 42 stoppages.
Lastly, one born in The Bronx, New York, who moved to Puerto Rico, was three-division world champion Wilfred Benitez, 53-8-1 with 31 stoppages.
These are simply among the many Latino and Spanish greats. Are you able to add some extra?
