Cuban Legends of Boxing highlights the professional careers of Cuba’s original five International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees. Featherweight champ Kid Chocolate became a national hero when he captured Cuba’s first world title in 1930. Kid Gavilan followed winning the world welterweight crown in 1951.
When the Cuban government banned professional sports in 1961, Cuba’s top fighters fled the Communist revolution to pursue their careers in exile. In 1963, Luis Manuel Rodriquez and Ultiminio “Sugar” Ramos won world championships in their adopted homelands.
In 1969, Jose “Mantequlla” Napoles won the world welterweight title and reigned supreme for the next six years as the undisputed champion of the world. Cuban Legends of Boxing tells their incredible stories as they rose from humble beginnings to the top of the world and eventual induction into the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame.