Black, Gay and Undocumented: The story of boxing’s first Latino Champion
by Joey Krebs
It was the body of one of the greatest boxers of all time. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from El Tecolote Suscríbete a nuestro boletín para recibir las noticias más recientes de El Tecolote indicates required
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Transferred to a dilapidated Staten Island Hospital, Alfonso Téofilo Brown better known as his ring name Panama Al Brown clung to life for six more months before succumbing to tuberculosis on April 11, 1951.
He died alone and penniless. But Brown’s life wasn’t always this way.