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The prime motivation that will drive Cuban Yoenli Feliciano Hernandez when, on May 31 in Las Vegas, he takes on middleweight ...
Even before they could climb into the ring, Cuba’s female boxers had to roll with the punches. While the island has long been famed for its top-level male boxers, women were blocked by an ...
Cuban Olympic medalist boxer Jorge Hernandez instructs his pupils at his academy in Havana ... fast and precise boxing. / AFP / YAMIL LAGE (Photo credit should read YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty ...
Before the ban, Cuba had built a reputation in boxing, at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Cuba won two silver medals, at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Cuban boxers dominated the field by winning ten medals ...
Four Olympic medalists in a squad of six Cuban boxers are to make their professional debuts in Mexico “for the first time in the history of boxing,” event organizer Gerardo Saldivar said. Cuba has ...
That would take him one step closer to Cuba's all-time boxing greats Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson, both three-time Games gold medalists, but La Cruz, who's known as the shadow for his elusive ...
Sarbelio Fuentes Rodríguez, one of Cuba’s most respected boxing legends, passed away on April 19 at the age of 85. Born in Santiago de Cuba back in 1939, Fuentes had an incredible journey ...