KID GAVILAN SIGNED Photo Cuban Boxer Gerardo Gonzalez (d.2003) HOF

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 4"x5-1/2"

MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Kid Gavilan

ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Signature is original, Photo is Modern - A modern printed image produced through non-photographic processes

SIGNER: Kid Gavilan

COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass further inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See scans for signature quality and photo condition.

BIO: Gerardo Gonzalez was born in 1926 in Camaguey, Cuba and died in 2003 in Miami, FL. Gerardo González, better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a Cuban boxer. Gavilán was the former undisputed world welterweight champion from 1951 to 1954 having simultaneously held the NYSAC, WBA, and The Ring welterweight titles. The Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1953. Gavilán was voted by The Ring magazine as the 26th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. Gavilán was a 1966 inductee to The Ring magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame (disbanded in 1987), and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.

SKU: L13962

Item: L13962