That's messed up, he would have been great for boxing, for some reason the best boxers of all time from cuba never get to turn pro Stevenson Savon Kindelan And now Rigondeaux Sad, really sad
Such a shame. They must be really worried. How about America go and run an operation freedom in Cuba.
yea, i agree. nuke em up. entertainment goods like boxers are just as important as oil. so please, give war a chance in cuba.
Yup. Dumbasses will never be leaving Cuba again, at least not in Castro's lifetime. Their boxing careers are over internationally I suspect; unless they go through some hardcore brainwashing classes.
wow i hope they'll be alright.. talk about a fall from grace, they were on the verge of making millions now they could be going to prison, for just trying to leave a country
according to this article (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/ac07/news/story?id=2959796) it says they WANTED to go back to cuba and declined lawyers provided by Oner
I read that. It was after they racked up a huge tab at the hotel they were staying at and realized that no one outside of Cuba gave a **** who they were; while back in Cuba everyone knew them.
Castro at this point is just a party figurehead, there are multiple hardliners still controlling Cuba behind the scenes. Castro's death does very little in terms of change.
Oportunity only knock once they will regret it for the rest of their life been declared traitors their only chance is to jump in a raft and trying to make it to Florida.
Even though it would have been great to see what all of the boxers you listed could have done as pros. The human rights isues are more of a concern to me.