Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba’s “Kid Hawk” won the other, plus a title defense ...
MIAMI (AP) -- Bobby Dykes, a boxer in the 1940s and 1950s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson, died at 77. He died Wednesday in his Coral Gables home, son-in-law Harry Roberts said. Dykes ...
Bobby Dykes, a veteran of 146 boxing matches who took on Kid Gavilan in the first ever match between black and white fighters in Miami, died Wednesday in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 77. Dykes, a native ...