Word: rapidez
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...crowd of 14,313 in the Los Angeles Forum last week, it was largely his ripping punches that helped Mexico's José Nápoles retain his welterweight title with a 15-round decision over Detroit's Hedgemon Lewis. To Kid Rapidez, Nápoles' trainer, the secret weapon was "the great power up there." Rapidez, a disciple of the voodoo-like Santero religion, believes in a good rite as much as in a good left. When one of his stable of 80 boxers fights an important match in Mexico City, the Kid dons...
...Rapidez, one of the most sought-after trainers in Latin America, knows all about thoroughbreds. Born Alfredo Cruz in Matanzas, Cuba, he quit school in the third grade and at age 13 went to Havana, where his quick hands won him the name Kid Rapidez and the Cuban flyweight title. After losing only eight of nearly 200 fights, the Kid retired and became a trainer at Havana's National Academy of Boxing. There he groomed such classy fighters as former Welterweight Champions Luis Rodriguez and the late Benny ("Kid") Paret. When Fidel Castro banned professional sports in Cuba, Rapidez...
...Your Brother." Nápoles and Ramos, who were Rapidez students in Cuba and followed their mentor to Mexico City, recall that the Kid's instruction did not end in the ring. Stopping one of his charges in the street, Rapidez would pick out another boy twice his size and say: "I'll give you a peso if you can knock him out. I mean cold." Nápoles figures that he won 20 cold pesos that way. Ramos was less fortunate. Son of a police sergeant who sired 53 children, he remembers: "Every time I got ready...
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