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 HBO Boxing 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

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, a Panamanian multiple time world champion, and

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, a Mexican multiple time world champion. He also credited

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, Carlos Monzon 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''. 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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, Central and

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and the

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