The Cuban Bon Bon Born Sergio Eligio Sardinas Montalvo but we all know him as Kid Chocolate. He was fast, he was smooth, he was "a living, breathing boxing instruction book." But let me get to the point: I have a hard time ranking him for I am terribly bias towards him as he is one of my favorite all-time boxers. Where do you rank him? I believe to really gauge Chocolate's greatness you must first rank Tony Canzoneri. So Canzoneri as well? While we're at it, who did you think won their first fight? Sorry for the trouble, thank you!
was able to use his ridiculous physical advantages to great effect. a tremendous fighter in a great era
Canzoneri I usually have between 11-14. Chocolate was not as great as Tony, and I consider, maybe controversially, the filmed fight we have of theirs very close. Chocolate was phenomenal though. One of the great Cubans for sure.
The second best Cuban named kid, top 5 guy with a racially insensitive name, the all time 'looks handsome in some photos and freakishly deformed in others'. Oh and he could box as well.
Lest we forget Tony Canzoneri ko'd Kid Chocalate in their second fight with one right cross in in 1933...What great fighting little men we had in the early 1930s, such as Chocalate, Benny Bass, Battling Battalino, Barney Ross, Canzoneri, Lou Ambers, jimmy McLarnin, Billy Petrolle, Henry Armstrong, Baby Arizmendi, Jackie Kid Berg, etc...Why were they great ? They learned their craft fighting so often, guided by the greatest trainers some of them I would see in the 1940s at Stillman's gym...And they were so talented because the deeper the pool of fighters, the more often they fought, and to get to the elite top you had to be damned GOOD ....
