Guanabacoa. Cuba
Boxing in Cuba (20)
Cuba has a long history of World and Olympic boxing champions, both in professional (banned in 1962) and amateur boxing. Perhaps it was the great Cuban boxing idol of all time, Eligio Sardiñas, aka Kid Chocolate, who triggered that dream forever. In the 1940s, Kid once said, "I am boxing."
It is estimated that several thousand boys, from 8 to their mid-teens, practice boxing under trained coaches.
All of these kids have one dream: to become today’s Kid Chocolate or Teófilo Stevenson; win an Olympic medal and the acclaim of sports fans. It’s not so impossible to become a champ. Cubans have won around 30 gold medals in Olympic Games in boxing alone, not to mention the medals won in wrestling, judo, track and field, weightlifting, volleyball, baseball and others. Whether newcomers to the sport or the most experienced, boxers always receive the enthusiastic support of the millions of fans in Cuba.
Guanabacoa. Cuba
Boxing in Cuba (20)
Cuba has a long history of World and Olympic boxing champions, both in professional (banned in 1962) and amateur boxing. Perhaps it was the great Cuban boxing idol of all time, Eligio Sardiñas, aka Kid Chocolate, who triggered that dream forever. In the 1940s, Kid once said, "I am boxing."
It is estimated that several thousand boys, from 8 to their mid-teens, practice boxing under trained coaches.
All of these kids have one dream: to become today’s Kid Chocolate or Teófilo Stevenson; win an Olympic medal and the acclaim of sports fans. It’s not so impossible to become a champ. Cubans have won around 30 gold medals in Olympic Games in boxing alone, not to mention the medals won in wrestling, judo, track and field, weightlifting, volleyball, baseball and others. Whether newcomers to the sport or the most experienced, boxers always receive the enthusiastic support of the millions of fans in Cuba.