Olympic Champions Gonzales, Tate, Tillman Fight Aug. 11 at Palladium

Three Olympic gold medal winning boxers, Paul Gonzales, Frank Tate and Henry Tillman, will appear in three separate six-round bouts next Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Hollywood Palladium.

The card, which will be nationally televised by CBS, begins at 1 p.m.

Gonzales, 21, the flyweight Olympic champion from East Los Angeles, will make his pro debut when he takes on Jose (Pulga) Torres, a former Nevada super flyweight champion with a record of 22-13-2 and nine KOs.

Torres, 28, of Tucson, knocked out former WBC world flyweight champion Charlie Magri of Tunisia in May, 1982.

Tate, the middleweight Olympic champion from Detroit, will face Thomas (Mad Dog) Smith, 21, of Houston. Tate is 7-0 as a pro, while Smith is 17-2-0 with eight KOs.

Tillman, the heavyweight champion from Los Angeles, will take on Oscar Holman. Tillman is 5-0, while Holman is 11-4 with four KOs.

Each of the three champions won their gold medals on Aug. 11, 1984. Sunday’s one-year anniversary show is being billed as Los Angeles ‘85--the Spirit Lives.