Marcel Cerdan Junior, son of a legend, is dead

Eldest son of the former middleweight world champion, who had two other boys, he kept his father’s memory alive, but was himself an international level boxer, a very big star of the 1960s. He remains the last Frenchman to have fought in a star fight in the main hall of Madison Square Garden in New York, narrowly losing on points against the Canadian Donato Paduano, on May 11, 1970, in a world welterweight eliminatory (-66.678 kg). He did not lack qualities, a very good technician but with a lack of power, but the public who followed him criticized him, accusing him of not having the level of his father.