Puppy Garcia
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Name: Pupi Garcia
Alias: Puppy Garcia
Birth Name: Antonio Garcia
Hometown: Havana, Cuba
Died: 2005-10-23 (Age:72)
Pro Boxer: Record
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World-rated featherweight Puppy Garcia was one of Cuba's most popular fighters ever, selling out large arenas every time he laced on a glove.
His career was interrupted, just as promoter Chris Dundee was setting up a title bout against Hogan (Kid) Bassey, by an eight-year political prison stint in a Cuban concentration camp for being a member of the anti-Castro resistance movement.
Garcia was exiled to the United States in 1980, was a municipal employee for the city of Sweetwater, Florida, and died of a stroke on October 23, 2005.
- "Puppy Garcia Was Something Special" by Enrique Encinsosa: [1]