Sons of Cuba- Christian Martinez update

Hey folks, I think many of you guys have seen Sons of Cuba documentary movie about Cuban Amateur boxing. If you havent seen it, you better do it, it is really damn good shot. I want to update some info about Movie´s main star Christian "Son of Cuba" Martinez. Since the movie he managed to win Cuban National championship four more times but sad part of story is that he didnt get to Olympic team and in my opinion that took lot from him. Now he was invited to join Slovakian National team under coaching of former WBO LWH title challenger Tomas Kovacs. His main goal now is to qualify to Olympics, but to do so he has to win National Championship(then European championship) which is next week. He has record 137-8 (two of losses are from slovakia i have seen one of his bout where he was"defeated" in my opinion he did enough to secure win thus he lost 5:0), i am worried that Slovakian boxing politics could hurt him, people dont want to see Cuban dude taking spot in Slovakian national team which means slovakian boxer wont get chance to represent his country. He is nice, humble guy that was unlucky in Cuba now chasing his dream in Europe, he is also son of olympic medailist Luis Martinez. I respect him bcs he lives all alone, he does not understand slovakian language, he is short of money and has to rely on himself. He won tournament in Hungary last month here you can watch his performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAg0h3nMYn4

Comments (20)

YoungManRumble

Thanks for bumping I'll check em out

6y ago

Eldogg

Hey Freedef, any update on Christian? Sad to hear he is not going to compete in the Olympics but I am sure he would make a good professional boxer. Very talented kid.

6y ago

Freedef

Hey guys check out short documentary we made About Cristhian, worth watching. Let me know what you think ;) Cristian Martinez - The Son Of Cuba | 5x - Cuban Champion | https://youtu.be/oWVsYfpWrKM

6y ago

Freedef

Heyyy i would loveee that ! Just yesterday we were talking About this. We were disscusing how hard it is to find some normal people to manage and promote him. He was offered a contract that was disgusting. No insurance covered, first fights for free and stuff like that !!!! Some Magyar guy. I have send you a DM !

7y ago

Kkarag01

Amazing. Thank you for sharing. Sad to see the Slovaks drop him, especially considering his talent. I have a couple guys I know in the USA who do promotions. They are definitely in the top 10 in the promotional space and I would be glad to initiate a talk with them, if Christian wants to go pro and start out with strong promotional help. Let me know. Glad to help any fighter!

7y ago

Freedef

I have met with Cristhian today. Went training today. Here is little footage in anyone interested. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m4aavi3do7zzsrr/AAD2CbAcpEZd3-I4OAbX7bLwa?dl=0 :)

7y ago

Freedef

Keep the updates coming :boxing: Here you go bud

7y ago

Freedef

Any news out of 2019? He is one of the people I hope we get to see in Tokyo in the world stage. Will make a lot of fans there! Hello, Unfortunately Cristhian wont be participating in Olympic Games because he was abandonded by slovakian boxing federation, he does not box and now he works as construction worker :( really sad, i am doing everything to help him and his girlfriends is doing too. Cristhian would love to start professional boxing i have contacted some promoters if they would love to represent him. I am medicine student and big fan of the sport but i dont see inside of professional boxing how are thing done, how to get a licence, how to find manager , promoter etc. :)

7y ago

Kkarag01

Any news out of 2019? He is one of the people I hope we get to see in Tokyo in the world stage. Will make a lot of fans there!

7y ago

dan_cov

Keep the updates coming :boxing:

7y ago

Freedef

Hey there folks, Quick update on Cristhians journey. What is new in his life.. So first of all, he stopped participating in tournaments and boxing league because of the fact he still did not get his Slovakian Citizienship, paperworks are in progress so i hope that by the end of the year he will be able to compete again. On Sunday he is going back to Cuba for summer. Last month he had fight in Belgium against National Champion of Belgium in 64kg weight class. Here is link for full fight in Full HD ! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLPoVkDrvQ I think Cristhian got robbed but hey, it does not really matter, it was for Money. Hometown boy got the nod. What do you think ? Cristhian beat him or it is just my bias ? Thanks guys

7y ago

Freedef

All the best wishes for Christian and his future, any updates on upcoming events etc? Would love to attend Here you go :)

8y ago

Freedef

Hello guys, here is some news from Cristhian life, wasnt updating any news from him because he was in Cuba during January. On Friday he had first fight of 2018 in Slovakia against i believe National championship runner up in 60kg category. Here is his fight sorry for bad quality but that is all i got. Long story short Cristhian feels very dissappionted about outcome of fight. He feels that he had done more than enough to secure wins, thus he lost 0:5, people were booing and Cristhian couldnt believe. It takes lot from him that he is training, trying hard and then he cant get a W. I believe this is his 8th or 9th loss on his almost 150fight resume. 3 of losses coming from fighting in Slovakia. 5 losses coming from National Championship in Cuba where he lost close fights to Cuban Olympic stars like Lazaro Alvarez etc. Sorry for bad quality of video. Cristhian was ducking,weaving and slipping most of the punches and countered/jabbed hell out of his opponent Video link : https://youtu.be/tdVgVdXwo80 Enjoy !

8y ago

BrawlerBaller

All the best wishes for Christian and his future, any updates on upcoming events etc? Would love to attend

8y ago

Freedef

Fighting a cuban without corners isn't really fair. Yeah ikr...

8y ago

_Shawn

Hello guys ! Here is new video from Cristhians fight on 27, October,2017 it was fight on MMA event card. He fought against 12x National Champion Michal Zatorsky, German Boxing Champion and also he won many European Tournaments but he last 6 months he wasnt really training because he is soldier now so he doesnt have much time for boxing ( from what i heard he was training once/2-times in a week). Since it was MMA event they had to fight in Octagon :D Never seen boxing in octagon. Cristhian felt well but he forgot his boxing shoes so he had to box in his regular ones which werent very comfortable :) Cristhian won that fight pretty clearly. Here is link enjoy : https://www.facebook.com/www.eastprofight.sk/videos/1448930775223684/ Fighting a cuban without corners isn't really fair.

8y ago

Freedef

8y ago

Freedef

hope there will be videos from his fights! Yeah i will post here his fight from October in few days.

8y ago

inFi

Update : Cristian won his final fight by 3:0 Decision. Now he is all focused for European Championship qualification tournament which is in March(I think). Now he is going back to Cuba for christmas. That is it for now :) hope there will be videos from his fights!

8y ago

Freedef

Well, Lorenzo Sotomayor left Cuba because he couldn't beat Yasnier Toledo, left to Azerbajan and became their olympic representative, beating Toledo himself and securing an olympic silver in a fight many felt he won. Same with Cristian. He lost to his Rival Lazaro Alvarez. Loosing to him in 2012 cost him spot in Olympic team.

8y ago