MIAMI -- Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan, one of the first members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and known for his slick defense, timely combinations and signature bolo punch, has ...

Kid Gavilan, who came out of the Cuban sugar fields to become the world welterweight champion of the early 1950s, displaying a flashy style that featured his signature bolo punch, died Thursday at a ...

Miami - Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan has died at the age of 77. He was one of the first members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.Gavilan became a star and television regular in ...

Felix Pacheco (center) works the corner of Da'Sha Ragland (right) with Ricky Clark (left) during an exhibition on July 19 in downtown Harrisburg. (Jessica Tezak, PennLive.com) As part of our on-going ...

Former welterweight champion Kid Gavilan, one of the first members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died at age 77. Gavilan died Thursday of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, said Rebekah ...

Cuba has one of the richest boxing histories on the planet. Fighters such as Kid Gavilan and Jose Napoles were major stars of their era. Yet, compiling a ranking for Cuban fighters is more complicated ...

Bobby Dykes, 77, a boxer in the 1940s and ‘50s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson, died Wednesday of Lou Gehrig’s disease at his home in Coral Gables, Fla., his son-in-law Harry Roberts ...

Charles Pierce (“Chuck”) Davey is well educated (an M.A. in education from Michigan State), well built (147 Ibs., 5 ft. 8½ in.), and he was well ballyhooed as an up & coming boxer. Turning pro in 1949 ...

Carmen Basilio is a swaggering young (26) ex-marine with the biceps of a riveter and the combative instincts of a Brahma bull. As a prizefighter, he has won 36 out of 51 professional fights, and out ...