Kid Chocolate
For the boxer of the same nickname see Peter Quillin.
Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo (January 6, 1910 – August 8, 1988), better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and outside of it during the 1930s.
Biography
Sardiñas, also nicknamed The Cuban Bon Bon, learned how to fight by watching old fight films in Cuba. He later sparred with boxers such as Benny Leonard and Jack Johnson, all world champions, before beginning an amateur boxing career. As an amateur, he allegedly won all 100 of his fights, 86 by knockout, but this record was apparently fabricated for publicity purposes.
His professional boxing debut, officially, occurred on December 8, 1927, when he beat Johnny Cruz in six rounds in Havana. Although it has been claimed that he had 100 amateur fights and 21 KO wins as a pro in Cuba, this was a fabrication by his manager, Pincho Gutierrez.
Research by boxing historian Enrique Encinosa has uncovered 22 amateur bouts (listed below), verified through Cuban newspapers Diario de la Marina and La Noche, as well as various books published by biographers or the Cuban government.
Podcasts:
Kid Chocolate
ALBUMS
- Ich möchte ein Eicher sein released: 2005
Ich möchte ein Eicher sein
Released 2005- Eisbaer (feat. Eve)
- Two People in a Room (remix)
- Nice (remix)
- Les Filles du Limmatquai
- La Pièce
- Ich Liebe Sie (remix)
- Miniminiminiminijupe
- Noise Boys Song (Nu Wave Hookers remix)
- Heidiland (feat. Jeanpierre)
- Eisbaer (Polatronic mix)
- Combien de Temps
- Träume Mit Mir
- Les Filles du Limmatquai (Tweak's s p_p k_ds remix)
- Filmserie #3
- Paris (version soixante quinze)
- La Chanson Bleue
- Ice Bear
