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

 

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

 

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"