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	Kid Gavilan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gavilan started as a professional boxer on the evening of June 5, 1943, when he beat Antonio Diaz by a decision in four rounds in Havana.
		In 1953, Gavilan retained the title by a knockout in ten against Chuck Davey, by a decision in 15 against Carmen Basilio and by a decision in 15 against Bratton.
		Gavilan died in Miami, Florida of a heart attack at age 77.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kid_Gavilan (870 words)

	No Rest Until Kid Gavilan Has Peace
		Gavilan, who captured the world welterweight title in a 15-round decision over Johnny Bratton in 1951, was penniless when he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
		Gavilan was a flashy fighter, and his bolo punch - a half-hook, half-uppercut - later became part of Sugar Ray Leonard's repertory.
		Gavilan's title defense against Gil Turner in 1952 in Philadelphia drew a gate of $269,667, a welterweight record at the time.
	www.blackathlete.net /artman/publish/article_0520.shtml (946 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hall of Famer Kid Gavilan dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gavilan died Thursday of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, said Rebekah Navarro, owner of the assisted-living facility where the fighter lived the past four years.
		Gavilan won the vacant welterweight title by outpointing Johnny Bratton in 1951 at New York, and he defended it seven times before losing it on points to Johnny Saxton three years later at Philadelphia.
		Gavilan was a showman, often doing a little dance during his fights — the Ali Shuffle before Muhammad Ali.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/boxing/2003-02-14-gavilan-obit_x.htm (454 words)

	Boxing News : Gavilan Gone but not Forgotten
		Gavilan's ring history began at age 10, and he engaged in 60 amateur fights before turning pro at age 17 with a four-round decision over Antonio Diaz in Havana.
		Although Gavilan was clearly in failing health, it was obvious that he, too, was thrilled with meeting one of his peers.
		Kid Gavilan, ever the picture of class in the squared circle, remained the picture of class in the squared circle of life until the day he died.
	www.maxboxing.com /News/groves021803.asp (1285 words)

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		It is amazing that "The Kid" was never knocked out in his career, never weighed more than 151 pounds and fought against middleweights after running out of opponents in his own division.
		In 1954 Gavilan tried to win the middleweight title but was soundly beaten by Carl Olsen, Gavilan was now a shell of his former self.
		Gavilan lost his earnings and possessions when Cuba was taken control of by Fidel Castro but was allowed to emigrate to the USA in 1968 and was part of Ali's entourage for a time.
	members.tripod.com /~bxhof/gavilan.html (439 words)

	In memoriam: Kid "The Cuban Hawk" Gavilan
		Gavilan is a Spanish word and it means a hawk and for most of his career he was known as Kid Gavilan.
		For three years Gavilan was the number one contender, defeating among others Ike Williams in both of their rematches and being one of the most popular fighters in the world and fighting regularly in the MSG.
		Gavilan proved that he was a worthy successor for the legendary Sugar Ray by being a dominating champion for four years.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /boxing-news/janne1602.php (1258 words)

	ESPN Classic - Kid Gavilan dies at 77 of heart attack
		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 died at age 77.
		Gavilan died Feb. 13 of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, said Rebekah Navarro, owner of the assisted-living facility where the fighter lived the past four years.
		Gavilan was a showman, often doing a little dance during his fights -- the Ali Shuffle before Muhammad Ali.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2003/0214/1508894.html (454 words)

	WAIL!... The CBZ Journal \| April 2003
		Kid Gavilan was a prodigy inside the ring, an athlete with destiny, a natural at the fight game.
		Gavilan -with 28 years of hard living and almost 120 fights- was a champion on the decline.
		Gavilan was offered several jobs and accepted to become part of Muhammad Ali's staff, but the job did not last long, ending with Gavilan threatening a lawsuit.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/w0403-ee.html (2086 words)

	BOX-Gavilan-Burial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MIAMI (AP) - Shortly after his death two years ago, Kid Gavilan's body was buried in a common plot at a west Miami cemetery.
		Gavilan was reburied on Saturday in a separate area of Our Lady of Mercy cemetery - with a new four-foot wide, three-foot tall headstone and a photo of the fighter.
		Gavilan, one of the first members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, had multiple fights against Ike Williams and Sugar Ray Robinson.
	www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/Sports/050402/s040289A.html (255 words)

	Kid Gavilian - Iron Life Forums
		Kid Gavilan is probably best known for the bolo punch, a flashy half-uppercut, half hook that rarely failed to excite the crowd.
		Gavilan claimed to have perfected the motion of the punch after years of using a machete on sugar plantations in his native Cuba.
		Gavilan kept busy and worked his way back into contention and eventually won the welterweight crown in May 1951 with a points win over Johnny Bratton in New York.
	www.ironlife.com /forum/showthread.php?t=46150 (287 words)

	IBHOF / Kid Gavilan, International Boxing Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WHEN KID Gavilan, born Gerardo Gonzalez, returned to the United States for good in 1947, he escaped Fidel Castro's revolution and the eventual rise of communism.
		Gavilan, known as the Cuban Hawk, emerged as a top fighter after twice beating lightweight champion Ike Williams in non-title bouts.
		Gavilan is the man credited with inventing the bolo punch.
	www.ibhof.com /gavilan.htm (225 words)

	Kid Gavilan: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gavilan was managed by Yamil Chade, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Gavilan was one of the few boxers ever not to be knocked down or out in their professional careers.
		Gavilan died in Miami of a heart attack.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kid_gavilan.htm (1947 words)

	Farewell To 'The Hawk'
		Gavilan actually began his career as a 17-year-old bantamweight in his native Cuba.
		Despite the fact Gavilan was not considered a puncher, he managed to break Bratton's jaw en-route to a clear unanimous decision.
		Kid Gavilan would never fight for a title again: only nine wins in his last twenty-five bouts, one of which was a points win in London over British and European Champion Peter Waterman.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /boxing-news/day0603.php (914 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Boxing \| Legend Gavilan dies
		Kid Gavilan, the Cuban-born American fighter who was the world welterweight champion from 1951 to 1954, has died of a heart attack aged 77.
		Gavilan, whose real name was Gerardo Gonzalez, was born in Cuba in 1926 and made his professional debut at the age oif 17.
		Gavilan challenged Carl 'Bobo' Olsen for the middleweight title but lost a decision and quit boxing at the age of 32.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/boxing/2764637.stm (134 words)

	Kid Gavilan vs Carmen Basilio Autographs
		Gavilan decisioned Bratton in 15 rounds on May 18, 1951.
		In Gavilan's next fight, on October 20, he lost the welterweight championship to Johnny Saxton in another 15-round decision.
		Gavilan fought for four more years, but he lost four of six fights in 1957 and he retired after losing two out of three in 1958.
	www.boxing-memorabilia.com /gavilanbasillio.htm (820 words)

	(DV) Mickey Z: Kid Gavilan's Grave
		Famed for his "bolo punch," Gavilan was both a crowd favorite and a talented pugilist.
		Born Gerardo Gonzalez on January 6, 1926 in Havana, Cuba, The Keed went 107-30-6 (28 kayos) and is one of the few boxers ever not to be knocked down or out in their professional careers.
		Kid Gavilan, ignored during the last years of his life, would have his headstone.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Aug04/MickeyZ0809.htm (655 words)

	Gavilan vs. Dykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kid Gavilan, the disputed welterweight champion (recognized by the N.B.A. as world champion, by The Ring as American champion) was fast becoming the un-disputed king of the disputed division.
		The margin of Gavilan's split decision victory was, depending on your particular point of view, either his second round knockdown of Dykes, or the fact that Judge Ladislad Nodarse of Havana, was the third judge.
		Judge Nodarse was brought in on the insistence of the Gavilan camp, who feared unfair treatment in the first "mixed" match in Florida history.
	www.antekprizering.com /gavilandykes.html (112 words)

	Goodbye to the Kid - OOTP Developments Forums
		The Kid was a great fighter who gave Sugar Ray Robinson a very hard time when they met for the welterweight championship in 1949.
		Kid Gavilan's overall record was 106-30, 6 draws and 1 no contest, with 27 KO's.
		Another point in Gavilan`s favour was he also fought middleweights, even though he was a welter.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=24117 (2304 words)

	Bolo punch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ceferino Garcia is said to have been the inventor of the bolo punch.
		He, Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Leonard are widely recognized as three of the best bolo punchers in boxing history.
		When asked once how he came to develop the wide sweeping uppercut, Garcia said when he was a youth he used to cut sugarcane in the Philippine Islands, with a bolo knife, which he wielded in a sweeping uppercut fashion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bolo_punch (289 words)

	Kid Gavilan Biography
		Gerardo Gonzalez (January 6, 1926 - February 13, 2003), better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former boxer and world welterweight champion from Cuba.
		Gavilan was managed by Yamil Chade, a half Lebanese, half Cuban manager who also directed the careers of Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez, Carlos De Leon and Felix Trinidad among others.
		His third fight with Graham was his first world title defense in Havana and his fight with Dykes marked the first time that a Black and a White had a boxing fight in then segregated Miami, Florida.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Gavilan_Kid.html (845 words)

	Boxer Bobby Dykes dies at 77 in Miami - Boston.com
		Bobby Dykes, a boxer in the 1940s and 1950s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson, died at 77.
		The bout was the first between a white and fl boxer in then-segregated Miami, and the Cuban-born Gavilan won a split decision.
		Dykes and Gavilan met again three years later in a nontitle match, which Dykes won by unanimous decision.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/boxing/articles/2006/06/01/boxer_bobby_dykes_dies_at_77_in_miami (314 words)

	Castro’s Cuba and the Spirit of Kid Gavilan \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Gavilan was a charismatic fighter, a showman whose flair predated Ali.
		Gavilan retired to his farm in Cuba, still a hero in the eyes of his people.
		Kid Gavilan was a great fighter and I’m sorry that some people forgot him when he died.”
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1956/castro-cuba-spirit-kid-gavilan (2434 words)

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		Hall of fame boxer, Kid Gavilán dies of a heart attack.
		February 14, 2003 -- Hall of Fame boxer, Kid "El Famoso" Gavilán died yesterday of a heart attack at a Miami hospital.
		Born Gerardo González in Camaguey, Cuba, on Jan. 6, 1926, Gavilán started boxing at the age of 16 and had his first pro fight at the age of 18.
	www.latinosportslegends.com /2003/kid_gavilan_dies_of_heartattack-021403.htm (254 words)

	GeoKid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I didn’t see all of "The Hawk’s" bouts when he first arrived stateside before proving himself, he went the traveling route the 1947 Kid Gavilan show played to out of town audiences like Baltimore, Newark and Philadelphia.
		My USMC service 1949-52 kept me from seeing the Gavilan at the title doorstep victims were Williams twice along with wins over middleweights Rocky Castellani, Laurent Dauthuille he also got first title crack with decision loss to the sweetest sugar of all Ray Robinson.
		The Kid was truly special and happily, he received his due on 1966, when numbered among those first elected to the Hall of Fame at Canastota, NY and he got there the old-fashioned way he earned it.
	www.braggingrightscorner.com /GeoKid.html (221 words)

	Video Report: New Headstone for Kid Gavilan \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		When the great welterweight champion Kid Gavilan died two years ago, he was buried in an unmarked grave at Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery in West Miami.
		Gavilan, born Gerardo Gonzalez in Camaguey, Cuba, won the welterweight title in 1951 and made seven successful defenses.
		Gavilan was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2128/video-report-new-headstone-kid-gavilan (893 words)

	History of Cuban Boxing, Part 1, Kid Chocolate, Kid Gavilan, Luis Rodriguez, Jose Napoles
		Kid Gavilan: welterweight champ elected to boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 beat fellow hall-of-famers Billy Graham, Ike Williams, Beau Jack and Carmen Basilio lost to Sugar Ray Robinson twice.
		Joe Miceli is one of three men to have fought Gavilan and Rodriguez, dropping a split decision to Gavilan at Madison Square Garden in 1950 and getting stopped by Rodriguez in Havana in 1959.
		The exception is Kid Chocolate, who fought his last five bouts in Havana and lived on the island until his death in 1988.
	www.ibhof.com /ibhfcuba1.htm (2647 words)

	WAIL! The CBZ Journal (May 2002)
		Kid Gavilan (Hawk) took his name from "El Gavilan," a cafeteria-tavern owned by his first manager.
		The second Kid was active as a welter and middle during the early forties.
		Kid Chicken was good enough to fight a draw with Tommy Bell and score a win and draw with Joe Blackwood -so the chicken was not so chicken after all- although he probably never scared any opponent with his ring name.
	www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/w0502-ee.htm (1180 words)

	RING 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou Raino spoke briefly about the Kid Gavilan fund and the success it has in getting the resources together to exhume the body of legendary Kid Gavilan and place into a proper burial spot with monument.
		The Kid Gavilan headstone donation drive was a success, with Tony Nap raising over the limit for giving the "Kid" a proper resting place.
		Kid Gavilan, one of the most popular welterweight boxers in the 1940's and 50's died last year and Ring 8 is collecting funds for his memorial headstone in Miami, Florida.
	www.trufanboxing.com /ring_8.htm (6383 words)

	Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A year-long campaign by Veteran Boxers’ Association Ring 8, to provide the late all-time great welterweight champion Kid Gavilan with a proper burial site, became a success this week with the help of several generous donors including former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
		According to Ross, what started out as a simple project to provide a fallen fighter with a commemorative headstone turned complicated after it came to light that the cemetery section Gavilan was buried in didn’t permit any standing monuments.
		“Kid Gavilan was a wonderful athlete and a fine human being and it was only fitting to honor his life and accomplishments.
	www.fightnews.com /courtemanche304.htm (509 words)

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