New wave of cubans in USA

Does anyone know BTW what happened to Yordenis Ugas the lightweight? He's still ranked as the #1 LW in the world by AIBA but this article says he's retired.

http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/02/11/20095/five_cuban_boxers_top_world_ranking.html

 

**** Yeah!

Also its Inocente Fiss not Fizz.

 

That's exactly it.

Thank god my parents gave me a normal name.

I'd take Omar over anyone of those names anyday.

 

Ugas tried to defect about a year ago I believe. But he failed.
The year following the '08 Olympics he became national champ (at light welter).

 

So he's pretty much in Rigo's shoes, he's banned and now it's either leaving Cuba or finding another job?

 

picking up garbage problably, thats what Alfredo Duvergel does if you know who that is.

 

the Caribbean heat will set the boxing world on fire

 

This thread title made me laugh.

 

Wow! I am super happy to see so many other Cubans defecting and turning pro, but many of them I don't know...

In order to be the best here they also have had to be the best over there and many of them were ranked 4 or 6 in Cuba so that's not too good. Maybe they can better themselves over here ( as long as they are young and not 29 or 30 ) but for what I saw many of them are not " Elite " like Rigo, Gamboa and Lara...

I wish them the best, but there are better fighters in Cuba than them, ex: Roniel Iglesias, Ugas, Correa etc...:good

 

These are the type of guys who are all flash and no substance. Don't worry about these Cubans.

Haye owes Solis one, that fatass heavy swinging hitting turncoat. They turned their backs on their own country. :verysad

 

Yasmani Consuegra and Luis Ortiz has been among the best (just behind Acosta and Alfonso) Cuban heavies the last couple of years, and Ortiz has been among the best for probably ten years. When Solis moved up to the superheavies in 2005, Ortiz became the number one heavy in Cuba and when Solis turned pro Ortiz moved up to the superheavyweight division, try to earn a ticket to the Olympics 2008, but Roberto Alfonso took that spot instead.

Here is a clip from World Cup 2005 in a fight between Ortiz and Roman Romanchuk

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiZSlA8LXA&feature=channel[/ame]

Karlo

 

Haye has ZERO chance aginst Solis and he will never fight him.

 

Yeah! **** him for wanting happiness and fleeing his opressive country to find a better life!:-(

 

I definitely know who Alfredo Duvergel is, 71 kg Olympian from Atlanta '96. Please, don't tell me he's really picking up garbage.

I saw his fight vs. David Reid in Atlanta '96. He was easily winning the fight 15-5 after knocking down Reid about two times and schooling him, until that fateful KO in round 3.

It's easily one of my saddest memories of boxing. Even now I try not to remember it.

I can't really believe he's picking up garbage.