Cuban Legends of Boxing

by F. Daniel Somrack

Overview

Cuban Legends of Boxing highlights the professional careers of Cuba's original five International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Featherweight champ Kid Chocolate became a national hero when he captured Cuba's first world title in 1930. Kid Gavilan followed winning the world welterweight crown in 1951.

When the Cuban government banned professional sports in 1961, Cuba's top fighters fled the Communist revolution

to pursue their careers in exile. In 1963, Luis Manuel Rodriquez and Ultiminio "Sugar" Ramos won world championships in their adopted homelands.

In 1969, Jose "Mantequlla" Napoles won the world welterweight title and reigned supreme for the next six years as the undisputed champion of the world.  Cuban Legends of Boxing tells their incredible stories as they rose from humble beginnings to the top of the world and eventual induction into the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166709202
Publisher:	F. Daniel Somrack
Publication date:	06/19/2022
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

F. Daniel Somrack is a boxing historian who authored his first book for Arcadia Publishing entitled Boxing in San Francisco. His subsequent titles include The Eddie Futch Interview, Jack Dempsey “Nonpareil,” Pancho Villa: The Filipino Legend, Kid Gavilan: The Cuban Hawk, Cuban Legends of Boxing and The Great Benny Leonard.

As a filmmaker, Somrack produced feature films and documentaries including the highly acclaimed Champions Forever that highlighted the life and times of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Billboard Magazine listed Champions as one of the highest-selling, original sports video of the 1990s.