Kid Gavilan vs Billy Graham: why is this fight controversial?

sweet_scientist · Jan 10, 2012

burt bienstock said: ↑

RJ, I did not see that fight between Gavilan and billy Graham...But the name Billy Graham evokes memory's in me. In the early 1940s my dad took me,a young boy, to St Nick's Arena in NYC. Waiting to give my ticket to the ticket taker, i noticed a young baby faced guy in front of me holding a little gym bag going past the ticket taker without showing his ticket..What a surprise to me and my dad later on when this young fellow fought a 4 rd prelim under the name of Billy Graham ! I, saw him fight many times after at local fight clubs and later on in main events in MSG. Billy was a master boxer with an iron chin...In 126 bouts against top fighters light hitting Billy Graham was NEVER kod or even dropped...He became a liquor salesman after he retired...Ah memory's...
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Apparently Kid Gavilan did knock Billy down in Cuba in their last meeting.

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Kid_Gavilan_vs._Billy_Graham_(4th_meeting)

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