Cuban boxing is steeped in history when it comes to amateur boxing producing some of the best amateur fighters the sport has ever seen. As the years have progressed, a handful have moved to the ...

HAVANA (AP) — Legnis Cala Massó carefully removes her necklace and smiles as her coach slides her bright red boxing gloves over her French tip nails. The 31-year-old swings her wiry body into the ring ...

HAVANA — Cuban boxers will be allowed to fight professionally for the first time since the 1960s under a deal with a Mexican promoter, officials said. The scope of the deal announced Monday wasn’t ...

Cuban boxing has once again asserted its global dominance by clinching every title contested by its athletes at the 45th Independence Cup in Santiago ...

Two-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion Julio César La Cruz will lead the Cuban boxing team that will compete in the men's qualifying tournament for the 2026 Central American and ...

On the second day of the Independence Boxing Cup, under way in the Dominican Republic, Saidel Horta (60 kg), second in the 2023 World Championship, notched up Cuba’s second victory, whereas among the ...

Cuban boxers are revered for their technique and toughness, but surprisingly, there has never been a Cuban heavyweight champion. Fidel Castro isn’t keen on allowing his boxers to compete ...

Former world champion and Olympic gold medal boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa is planning to make his bare knuckle boxing debut. BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing announced today the signing of the Cuban fighter to a ...

Brilliant Cuban light flyweight Joahnys Argilagos underlined his rich potential as he became the first boxer at the Rio Olympics into the semi-finals to guarantee at least a bronze medal. The ...

German promoter Agon Sports has signed up four Cuban prospects who will all make their professional debuts on the Cuban Boxing Night II on November 29 at the Hotel Melia Internacional in Varadero, ...

A Yugoslavian fighter called Mate Parlov was the first man to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship, an Olympic gold medal and then a professional world title. Almost half a century later, it is ...