Is Jose Napoles Cuban or Mexican?

I always think of him as Cuban.

 

I think he is Mexican.

To do what he did, he needed to fight outside of Cuba, and go against what Cuba stands for, and so the Mexicans took him to heart.

 

A Mexico based Cuban.

 

Cuban for sure!
He learnt to box in Cuba and started out his pro career there.
Kid Chocolate, Kid Gavilan and Luis Manuel Rodrigues all spent almost their entire careers in the US still I can't see anyone claiming they were US fighters.
It was good however of Mexico too give him the chance too thrive so if anyone there consider him theirs that's fine with me.

To me the main thing is that his style is so typical cuban with those loose dangling arms, bolos and looping hooks and the smooth movement that I find it impossible not to think of him as cuban

 

what difference does it make if hes cuban or mexican

 

Cuban for me. If the political situation wasn't so bad he'd be from there and I feel it bad someone should lose their identity due to a regime that came into place after Napoles considered himself a Cuban.

 

The ****er Castro chased Napoles outta Cuba onto Mexico........ Fidel Castro and Raul Castro will burn in hell when they die.........

SR.BILLARDO

 

Napoles is Cuban, whatever country you are born in is what you are .. He's a Cuban who fought out of Mexico to me ..

 

Napoles wanted to continue to fight pro, he knew what he needed to do and he to did it with brilliance himself, as a Mexican.

 

Cuban

 

napoles is a resident of Mexico, making him "Mexican", but he is a Cuban through and through, and most importantly, he FOUGHT like a Cuban, and not a Mexican.