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May
He was born in Parque Patricios in 1942, where his friends and family knew him as “el Titi”. He began as a boxer at Club Atlético Huracán, and in 1959 he was an amateur champion. After a suspension in 1963 for biting Lee Car's nipple at the Pan American in San Pablo, Bonavena went to try his luck in the United States. In North America, the histrionic promotion that Cassius Clay put on before each fight was known and he would beat the Canadian champion George Chuvalo. Also in the United States he fought twice with the big puncher Joe…