Word: montalvo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although no title was at stake, Eiigio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate'') took his fight with Tony Canzoneri last week so seriously that he actually trained properly instead of indulging in what his manager calls "bad things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed last June...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...