Cuban boxers could soon be fighting under professional rules for the first time in more than 50 years after high-level meetings between the Caribbean island's authorities and the International Boxing ...

STORY: This small town on the outskirts of Cuba's capital has for decades been quietly producing some of the world's best Olympic boxers. Since 1972, fueled by Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro's ...

Cuba will take its first steps into professional boxing with a friendly team competition against Mexico next month. The Cubans have selected a team to take part in the professional World Series Boxing ...

PARIS — Erislandy Álvarez didn't expect to carry the weight of a proud boxing nation on his shoulders when he takes the ring Wednesday night in an arena packed with fans rooting for his opponent. Yet ...

WAJAY, Cuba, Feb 19 (Reuters) - On the outskirts of Havana, the small town of Wajay has been quietly producing some of the best Olympic boxers in the world for decades. Since 1972, spurred by Cuba's ...

For eight years, he has been shaping champions more than 13,000 kilometers from his hometown of "Amancio." Boxing coach ...

Yoenis Tellez first strolled into Ronnie Shields Boxing Gym in Stafford, Texas, one afternoon in September of 2022, bringing big dreams and bigger baggage. In his native Cuba, Tellez had been a ...

For years. This is how women in Cuba have boxed sparring in rudimentary gyms with whatever equipment they could scrounge while men's boxing is *** sport, the island has long dominated women's boxing ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban heavyweight boxing great Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals but turned down a chance to fight Muhammad Ali for $5 million, has died of a heart attack at the ...