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Entries tagged with "Kid+Gavilan":

• Naming Names in the Fight Game – August 23rd, 2011

  When people say “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me,” they could not be more wrong…
  
  

• Tony DeMarco: I’m a Puncher – December 24th, 2011

  “I met Carbo,” DeMarco said of Frankie Carbo, aka Mr. Gray. “Those guys were wiseguys and they loved to own a fighter. It was like owning a racehorse…”
  
  

• Chico Vejar: Quintessential 1950s – December 26th, 2011

  There is more to Chico Vejar than toughness; there always was nobility and great sense of dignity…
  
  

• When Fans Go “Oooh and Aaah” – February 3rd, 2012

  Sometimes cuties are flashy or stylish, but more often than not, their calling card is reliance on a crafty persona…
  
  

• Roger, Floyd, and Sugar Ray Robinson – March 14th, 2012

  Roger Mayweather the boxing historian should have stopped while he was ahead. But stopping while he’s ahead is not Roger’s style…
  
  

• Kid Gavilan vs. Carmen Basilio – March 16th, 2012

  They were two of the greatest fighters who ever lived, despite the fact that each had several losses on his record. Kid Gavilan, aka The Cuban Hawk, met Carmen Basilio on Sept. 18, 1953, at the War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, New York, for Gavilan's welterweight crown. There were no split titles in those days. Nor were there a million weight classes. To be the champ meant being THE CHAMP. Gavilan was 94-13-4 going in. Basilio was 35-10-5. But numbers don't tell the whole story, and the tough-as-nails Basilio gave the flashy Gavilan a run for his money. Both these men have pride of place in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Watch this fight and you'll understand why...
  
  

• In Praise of a Prizefighting Leatherneck – April 15th, 2012

  There are many famous boxers who were also Marines. Gene Tunney, Ken Norton, and Carmen Basilio come immediately to mind…
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…