* The thank our good friend Mark Vistalli for us to get this moving article in "La Voz de Tandil" following the death of that life chinchano the legendary boxer Jose "Bom Bom" Coronado and which we reproduce below:
Women competed for the honor of carrying his humble bier
By Eduardo Baliari
This morning at quarter past ten in the bed 14 of the Board of San Vicente at the hospital in Lima, there was the news that everyone seemed to alleviate, its occupant, a young man of color -31 years, died in the midst of the pain more acute. It was eleven days had been hospitalized with deep discomfort in the liver and kidneys and was also hesitant heart. Eleven days bedridden, suffering, crying at night, pursued by gatekeepers pangs of pain.
had been taken to hospital in misery because of this: the total lack of resources. While the modest box that later could be achieved could barely lined with newspaper.
But when news of his death spread throughout Lima, when it became known who he was, one end of quiet oblivion and misery became an apotheosis burial. They did especially women, because when they started the march to the cemetery, all wanted to carry the coffin at the same time, fighting furiously, in an emotional disorder.
A large piece of his glory, women, covering the road to final game the boy who in life had called José Coronado.
was born in Chincha. At fourteen, watching the Atlantic Club Peru, Manco Capac, powering those boys of his age, but clumsily, it seemed that he could do much more easily and better. Indeed, it also allows you to wear gloves and began to jump into the ring to avoid improvised beats rival, to implement their own, realized that the space enclosed by the strings was a world in which he had to cope with a power lacked understanding that those, who could not grasp. At that time, the boxer was born. It takes time to learn
what has been called "the secrets of the ring." Is for him something like a form of expression. Discovered early in his life that stood in front of an opponent to be mastered, overcome, overthrow, to prevent sticking us, is how to express all that has been inside you and do not know how to explain. He says, yes, clearly with the gloves when chasing a rival, when a few moments after starting the fight and knows his psychology background, which can be achieved, the error is able to commit the man who expects his punches , in front of you. That is for him the best kept secret of the ring. You can not teach, you can not learn. Is detected or not in every man who decides to wear gloves.
That same year, we are in 1935 - is making its international debut. Indeed, he was sent to Chile as a representative of its class to Latin American championship. Defeat all rivals. And finished the tournament, take it as a show with a team that will fulfill a plan of fighting in the south. The next year is to send a representative to the Olympics that will be developed in Berlin. Error intervenes in selecting leaders, because no one would think that it is still a minor to the representations of those tournaments. Therefore can not ultimately represent their country, despite reaching the finals undefeated in the selection. *******
Twice
South American featherweight champion is an award not very common. But chronologically follow his path. Already in 1938, to qualify undefeated at the XII Latin American championship, it seems that he has no other way than required in such circumstances, become a professional. You then have 17 years. And Peru, especially Lima, he is small for his field of likely competitors, started a journey through various South American countries.
arrives in Buenos Aires and this leaves a lasting memory. Few fighters were hailed as him. You will be a campaign of 46 fights, 36 of them wins, tying 6 and losing only 4.
here among us, also live stage I am getting married. Comes a child. Perhaps this is an obstacle to the next life he wanted to catch it with so many facilities for money and fame as it was coddling. Women also, of course, never missing in these stages of the life of the boxers. Elba Sotelo, his partner was the woman for this, because it was a true guide guardian.
But after a while, after almost fifty fights, begin to insinuate some discomfort, especially the trend-perhaps the result of the physical state of abandonment and diversion when there is a period of forced rest.
So bitter, he returned to Lima to see if you can find the new field that starts to fail in Buenos Aires. Someone tempts you with the North. Worse. Return to Lima and was forced to abandon the ring. Is the moment of balance. It has nothing. And then takes refuge in the neighborhood of La Victoria.
soon begin these sharp pains that were the result of many battles in so few years, but perhaps even more so for the life I had squandered. Heart, kidneys, liver. Trilogy, with the brain, are the key points of failure in the body of a boxer. No more painful combination. The misery around him. Oblivion also worse. Until the day is indicated, should be taken to a hospital. The days of atrocious suffering did that, mercifully, to its inevitable end, over a wish that death came, by that time, early ... His story accusing
250 matches, 70 as a professional. His life served only 31 years for women will compete for the honor of carrying his coffin. A coffin tragically humble, who delivered outside a hospital, under ungrateful for boxing glory that not many can match ...
By Eduardo Baliari
This morning at quarter past ten in the bed 14 of the Board of San Vicente at the hospital in Lima, there was the news that everyone seemed to alleviate, its occupant, a young man of color -31 years, died in the midst of the pain more acute. It was eleven days had been hospitalized with deep discomfort in the liver and kidneys and was also hesitant heart. Eleven days bedridden, suffering, crying at night, pursued by gatekeepers pangs of pain.
had been taken to hospital in misery because of this: the total lack of resources. While the modest box that later could be achieved could barely lined with newspaper.
But when news of his death spread throughout Lima, when it became known who he was, one end of quiet oblivion and misery became an apotheosis burial. They did especially women, because when they started the march to the cemetery, all wanted to carry the coffin at the same time, fighting furiously, in an emotional disorder.
A large piece of his glory, women, covering the road to final game the boy who in life had called José Coronado.
was born in Chincha. At fourteen, watching the Atlantic Club Peru, Manco Capac, powering those boys of his age, but clumsily, it seemed that he could do much more easily and better. Indeed, it also allows you to wear gloves and began to jump into the ring to avoid improvised beats rival, to implement their own, realized that the space enclosed by the strings was a world in which he had to cope with a power lacked understanding that those, who could not grasp. At that time, the boxer was born. It takes time to learn
what has been called "the secrets of the ring." Is for him something like a form of expression. Discovered early in his life that stood in front of an opponent to be mastered, overcome, overthrow, to prevent sticking us, is how to express all that has been inside you and do not know how to explain. He says, yes, clearly with the gloves when chasing a rival, when a few moments after starting the fight and knows his psychology background, which can be achieved, the error is able to commit the man who expects his punches , in front of you. That is for him the best kept secret of the ring. You can not teach, you can not learn. Is detected or not in every man who decides to wear gloves.
That same year, we are in 1935 - is making its international debut. Indeed, he was sent to Chile as a representative of its class to Latin American championship. Defeat all rivals. And finished the tournament, take it as a show with a team that will fulfill a plan of fighting in the south. The next year is to send a representative to the Olympics that will be developed in Berlin. Error intervenes in selecting leaders, because no one would think that it is still a minor to the representations of those tournaments. Therefore can not ultimately represent their country, despite reaching the finals undefeated in the selection. *******
Twice
South American featherweight champion is an award not very common. But chronologically follow his path. Already in 1938, to qualify undefeated at the XII Latin American championship, it seems that he has no other way than required in such circumstances, become a professional. You then have 17 years. And Peru, especially Lima, he is small for his field of likely competitors, started a journey through various South American countries.
arrives in Buenos Aires and this leaves a lasting memory. Few fighters were hailed as him. You will be a campaign of 46 fights, 36 of them wins, tying 6 and losing only 4.
here among us, also live stage I am getting married. Comes a child. Perhaps this is an obstacle to the next life he wanted to catch it with so many facilities for money and fame as it was coddling. Women also, of course, never missing in these stages of the life of the boxers. Elba Sotelo, his partner was the woman for this, because it was a true guide guardian.
But after a while, after almost fifty fights, begin to insinuate some discomfort, especially the trend-perhaps the result of the physical state of abandonment and diversion when there is a period of forced rest.
So bitter, he returned to Lima to see if you can find the new field that starts to fail in Buenos Aires. Someone tempts you with the North. Worse. Return to Lima and was forced to abandon the ring. Is the moment of balance. It has nothing. And then takes refuge in the neighborhood of La Victoria.
soon begin these sharp pains that were the result of many battles in so few years, but perhaps even more so for the life I had squandered. Heart, kidneys, liver. Trilogy, with the brain, are the key points of failure in the body of a boxer. No more painful combination. The misery around him. Oblivion also worse. Until the day is indicated, should be taken to a hospital. The days of atrocious suffering did that, mercifully, to its inevitable end, over a wish that death came, by that time, early ... His story accusing
250 matches, 70 as a professional. His life served only 31 years for women will compete for the honor of carrying his coffin. A coffin tragically humble, who delivered outside a hospital, under ungrateful for boxing glory that not many can match ...
