California Boxing

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Gil Cadilli (R) vs Miguel Barrios

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Willie Pep (L) vs Gil Cadilli I

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Knockout magazine

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May 14, 1954

[yancey]

Originally Posted by kikibalt

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Gil Cadilli (R) vs Miguel Barrios

Another great photo. Look at the flex in the right leg of Cadilli.

A bit unusual as the fighters are using Everlast gloves.

It seems to me that the nearly all California boxing photos I've ever seen show the fighters using Reyes gloves.

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Originally Posted by yancey

Another great photo. Look at the flex in the right leg of Cadilli.

A bit unusual as the fighters are using Everlast gloves.

It seems to me that the nearly all California boxing photos I've ever seen show the fighters using Reyes gloves.

yancy, back in the early '50s the gloves most used in California were Flores Gloves.....The Barrios fight was in Boston I believe

Gil Cadiili was an East Los Angeles fighter

Yancy, check the gloves in the Pep/Cadilli picture, those are Flores gloves

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Flores Gloves...Made in Northern California

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Flores Gloves...Made in Northern California

[yancey]

Originally Posted by kikibalt

yancy, back in the early '50s the gloves most used in California were Flores Gloves.....The Barrios fight was in Boston I believe

Gil Cadiili was an East Los Angeles fighter

Yancy, check the gloves in the Pep/Cadilli picture, those are Flores gloves

Thanks for the info.

I really started following boxing in the mid-'60s. Quarry was one of my favorites and it seems like I saw the Reyes brand used in many of his California fights, but I could possibly be confusing Flores and Reyes.

The Everlast gloves now make sense if the Barrios fight was in Boston. It seems I generally have seen Everlast used in NY and other East Coast fights.

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Originally Posted by yancey

Thanks for the info.

I really started following boxing in the mid-'60s. Quarry was one of my favorites and it seems like I saw the Reyes brand used in many of his California fights, but I could possibly be confusing Flores and Reyes.

The Everlast gloves now make sense if the Barrios fight was in Boston. It seems I generally have seen Everlast used in NY and other East Coast fights.

No, you're not confuse. By the late '50s the Reyes/Seyer gloves, same gloves, just Reyes spelled backwards, were widely used in California, more so then Flores....The Flores Gloves the promoters claim were too expensive.

My boys loved the Flores 14 oz sparring gloves.

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The Campos Brothers

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Knockout Mag. Sept, 24, 1954

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Frank Stallone & Tony "The Tiger" Baltazar

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Eddie "The Animal" Lopez with the late Norm Lockwood (L) and John Liechty in the Olympic Auditorium dressing rooms area after his fight with John Tate. Eddie was the 1970s version of today's Chris Arreola.

Norm Lockwood was the Olympic's glove-man for over 30 years...John Liechty a 1976 Los Angeles Golden Gloves champion is today a timekeeper.

I call the dressing rooms at the Olympic 'The Catacombs"

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