Ceferino Garcia, the inventor of the "bolo punch" and world boxing middleweight champion in 1939-40. He was also the heaviest Filipino to ever earn a world championship.
CeferinoGarcia, the inventor of the "bolo punch" and world boxing middleweight champion in 1939-40,
CeferinoGarcia, the boxer, was the eldest child of Fortunato (Porto) Garcia and Pascuala Pieras.
Around early 2000, a California-based descendant of Glen Lee, whom Garcia defeated in Manila in 1938, informed this writer that his uncle was in fact white, not fl.
Bolo punches are not one of the traditional boxing punches (jab, uppercut, hook and cross) and they are seldom used; much less so during a combination.
CeferinoGarcia is said to have been the inventor of the bolo punch.
When asked once how he came to develop the wide sweeping uppercut, Garcia said when he was a youth he used to cut sugarcane in the Philippine Islands, with a bolo knife, which he wielded in a sweeping uppercut fashion.
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