At 56 years old, his family tries to find the whereabouts of the precious belt. For this reason, Horacio Accavallo Jr. started a campaign on social networks and WhatsApp groups looking for information about the object. “The expectation is to be able to recover it so that it can go to the Horacio Accavallo museum, where we have my old man’s cup and clothing,” he says Ambit.
Although the family does not have details about when the belt disappeared, they do remember that it was more than 20 years ago, since he was alive Juan Carlos “Tito” Lectoure, the mythical promoter and manager of Luna Park who died in 2002.
Accavallo son tells: “Dad was always a close friend of Tito Lectoure. They went to eat every Saturday. At one point there was an exhibition at Luna Park, with objects from various champions, and Tito asked him for things. Later time passed and my old man, half hung, he never removed them. Tito passed away and Luna Park was donated to Caritas. That’s when we lost track of what happened.”
Currently Accavallo (h) runs “El Campeón”, the brand of clothing and objects of boxing that he founded and whose products he sells at a local avenue Caseros 2729, where he set up the museum in honor of his father. The idea of looking for the belt, he says, arose in a WhatsApp chat in a group called “Peñaflor”, where about 110 people participate, including boxers, ex-boxers, collectors and boxing lovers. Then, taking advantage of his brand’s Instagram, he launched the request for help.
“I want to see if I can get my old man’s world championship belt back. My dad took him to Luna Park many years ago for an exhibition and we never saw him again.” explained Accavallo (h) in the publication that quickly began to circulate in boxing circles.
Before this chronicler, the interviewee shares a photo of the museum in tribute to his father and explains that “the world champion belt should be there”, while waiting for a revelation that will help unravel the mystery. In addition, he asks that in case of having any data, they communicate by private message to the account “@elcampeónha”.
Accavallo held the world title between 1966 and 1968, and defended it twice against the Japanese Hiroyuki Ebihara, and against the Mexican Efren Torres. Currently, the former boxer is 87 years old and has been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for 13 years. “The idea is to do everything possible to recover the belt, I know it is very difficult. It may be in a private collection, they sold it there, although they would not have to sell it because that was a loan made to Luna Park” , concludes his son.
Source From: Ambito
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