Cuba to Reinstate Professional Boxing Licenses

[Willie Pep 229]

Huffington Post

POLITICS

03/31/2021 11:44 pm ET

Havana, March 31st, (INAS) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal today announced that Cuba would once again allow professional boxing matches to be licensed on the island. For the past 60 years the Cuban government has used amateur boxing as a means of exhibiting the success of the new socialist government, winning medals in international competitions became a high-profile means of promoting the ideals of new Cuba. Now for the first . . . [Read More]

[JAB5239]

Huffington Post

POLITICS

03/31/2021 11:44 pm ET

Havana, March 31st, (INAS) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal today announced that Cuba would once again allow professional boxing matches to be licensed on the island. For the past 60 years the Cuban government has used amateur boxing as a means of exhibiting the success of the new socialist government, winning medals in international competitions became a high-profile means of promoting the ideals of new Cuba. Now for the first . . . [Read More]

........got me!!

[billeau2]

Huffington Post

POLITICS

03/31/2021 11:44 pm ET

Havana, March 31st, (INAS) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal today announced that Cuba would once again allow professional boxing matches to be licensed on the island. For the past 60 years the Cuban government has used amateur boxing as a means of exhibiting the success of the new socialist government, winning medals in international competitions became a high-profile means of promoting the ideals of new Cuba. Now for the first . . . [Read More]

'got me also...

[billeau2]

Huffington Post

POLITICS

03/31/2021 11:44 pm ET

Havana, March 31st, (INAS) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal today announced that Cuba would once again allow professional boxing matches to be licensed on the island. For the past 60 years the Cuban government has used amateur boxing as a means of exhibiting the success of the new socialist government, winning medals in international competitions became a high-profile means of promoting the ideals of new Cuba. Now for the first . . . [Read More]

Castro's cousin was quoted as saying... " Its a new day Comrades... where Pesos can be had for punching each other in the face! As if to emhasize the point he turned to the minister of physical culture and laid him out with a textbook Dempsey Left Hook.

[QueensburyRules]

- -Would they allow Rigomortis and other Cuban defectors back in to box or toss em in the gallows?

[travestyny]

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So is it like a "The Onion" article?

[QueensburyRules]

- -The Huff be the new Onion.

[Marchegiano]

I was about to click....paused....scrolled down...then decided not to


So is it like a "The Onion" article?

Yeah, link is april fool's wiki page. It's a good one, I got-got

[travestyny]

Yeah, link is april fool's wiki page. It's a good one, I got-got

Ah, shlt. I forgot to play an April fool's joke on my fam this year. lol. Thanks!

[Willie Pep 229]

I was about to click....paused....scrolled down...then decided not to


So is it like a "The Onion" article?

No I created (cut and paste) the article out of whole cloth myself - just ripped of the Huff formatting to make it look real (enough).