The likes of Odlanier Solis, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux all defected from Cuba to become professional boxers. I am glad to see these guys defecting as Cuba has always produced phenomenal fighters who have never had the chance to show their real skills on the pro scene. Do you think these Cubans can go on to become great fighters?
Virtually all are well schooled with a brillant amature pedigree. And have huge amount of potential and talent. But some seem never to reach there potential, due to them getting use to the good life in there new countires, as they were denied these privileges in there native Cuba.
Jorge Luis Gonzalez comes to mind, all the talent and potential in the world, but to lazy and to use to the good life, hardly trained and didn't take boxing serious.
But over the years there have been some outstanding fighters from Cuba, like Kid Chocolate, Kid Gavalin and Jose Napoles to name a few. And I expect more in the future, Gamboa is impressing me.
Shame do that some never turned pro fighters like Felix Savon, Teófilo Stevenson and Mario Kindelan, because who knows how good they could of been punching for pay......
The likes of Odlanier Solis, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux all defected from Cuba to become professional boxers. I am glad to see these guys defecting as Cuba has always produced phenomenal fighters who have never had the chance to show their real skills on the pro scene. Do you think these Cubans can go on to become great fighters?
they definitely have the skills. who knows how far they can go tho
Cubans are usually party animals. They like their beer, food, cigars, and women.
what real man does not like those things? the only question is can they stay focused. when i defected and got to the u.s it was a shock to say the least, but no one was throwing money at me like all of the guys listed. you have to ask yourself how hard would it be for you to stay focused if you had very little all of your life and then over night your rich and free