From The Ring Jan 1952,

Although Keeny Teran is still in the prelimenary ranks, the baby-faced youngster is already being hailed as another Manuel Ortiz in the making. Teran is built very much like Ortiz was at the same age, and like the former champion, Keeny packs a punch. Teran has had but twelve professional bouts, yet has displayed so much class and shown so much improvement that his manager and trainer, Ray Luna, is already thinking of the time when his handsome little protege will be fighting for the bantam title. And in this instance such thinking is not merely the "pipe dream" of some noisy handler, but instead, the observation of an exceptionally intelligent fellow, who was himself a clever boxer and is now one of the best trainers in California. However, although Teran has been boxing professionally for only eight months, he his no green hand at the trade, having been boxing since he was twelve years of age. In California, a boy must be 18 years of age to box even as a amateur, so Teran's fistic activities were confined to smokers. Keeny appeared on nearly a hundred such programs, and then as now, he "stole the show" most every time. Teran engaged in 24 amatuer contests, losing 2 of them, which decisions he reversed in return matches. Teran was born in Los Angeles on April 10, 1932 of Mexican parentage. And at 19 years of age he is still under the Bantamweight limit and he isn't apt to outgrow the weight for some time. California has produced three World Bantam champions, and if the ambition of this clever, hard punching little Mexican is realized, the fourth will be Keeny Teran.