http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs141.html Interesting article on the legendary Cuban Bon Bon. An excerpt: 'America took more constructive attention. Among them was the adolescent Sugar Ray Robinson, who went on record later as saying that he had never seen anyone box like Kid Chocolate before. It was a slick, moving style backed up by a big right hand and deterrent left hooks when necessary. Not jab-and-move, exactly, but something different. Perhaps like the advent of jazz. Workaday now, but revolutionary then. Robinson began studying the Chocolate style immediately and the two later became firm friends until Fidel Castro’s revolution of 1959, which replaced the despised Battista regime and was soon to leave Cuba cut adrift from professional boxing and boxers – if not, of course, amateur ones – not to mention many other things to this day.'
I've been watching Chocolate footage recently. The way he squares his feet offensively, and torques his punches, is very reminiscent of Tyson (or Tyson is reminiscent of Chocolate). I don't think this is a coincidence given how big a fan Tyson was of Kid Chocolate, but it's just a hunch.
