Chon Romero (born c. 1940) is a

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nian sportswriter and sportscaster. He was one of two sportscasters on

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, commenting on

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telecasts. Romero does not speak English; he worked on the network's Spanish telecasts of major boxing events, which were carried live, concurrent with their English telecasts on HBO. Romero is also a blogger and book writer, his comments being published on Soloboxeo.com and Latinoboxing.com. In 2001, Romero wrote a book named ''Roberto Durán y Julio César Chávez: Los Dos Mejores Pugiles Latinos del Milenio Quien Fue El Mejor Boxeador?''. in this book, he discussed his opinion about who was better between

Roberto Durán Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as wel ...

, a Panamanian multiple time world champion, and

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, a Mexican multiple time world champion. He also credited

Wilfredo Gómez Wilfredo Gómez RiveraFélix Trinidad Félix Juan Trinidad García (born January 10, 1973), popularly known as "Tito" Trinidad, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2008. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes and is said to b ...

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and Ricardo López as being other great Latino fighters in this book. For many years, Romero published a boxing magazine from

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, named ''

Guantes ''Guantes'' was a Spanish-language boxing magazine that was produced from Panama and later from New York City. The magazine's name means ''gloves'' in Spanish. Profile The publisher of ''Guantes'' was Hispano American Publications. Chon Romero ser ...

''. This magazine was published from Brooklyn and reached various states where there are large Hispanic populations as well as Hispanic countries in

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and

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and the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Romero, Chon Date of birth unknown Panamanian broadcasters Sports commentators Writers from New York City People from Orlando, Florida Living people Panamanian male writers Boxing writers Year of birth missing (living people)