These videos prove why Cuba produces the best Boxers in the World.

[UglyPug]

Glad you watched it this video reminded me how fuking awesome Boxing is.

greatest sport in the ****ing world. it brought goosebumps to see such passion for the sport. true metaphor for life. everyone's got their fight, in and out of the ring.

[RA-Box]

Sick vids.

and to the haters, one word, Gamboa.

[Frighteous]

This is what birthed Yuriorkis Gamboa, the best fighter in the last 25 years

[RoidRage]

they fight amateur their whole career and beat REAL AMATEURS..big deal.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Yo both of you if you find the time watch these videos. That is true they make the best amateurs because once they arrive in Miami they get carried away with the lifestyle and vices.

Not necessarily true....

There is a huge difference between amateur and pro style boxing. The training is completely different.

I train amateurs and I can tell you it's about speed and points. The way you teach kids is to hit, not be hit and move. That's great for a 3 round pace, when your letting all hang out but in a 12 round fight, that doesn't really fit well.

Very few athletes can keep that pace up for 8,10 rounds let alone 12. So while Cubans are incredible amateurs, they will need time to adjust to the pro game once Cuba is really free and their people can come to the U.S much easier.

Puerto Rico is a great example, they were once a much better amateur program but PR's now train to be pro's and you can see it in their success.

Mexicans train almost exclusively for the pro's because they need to make that money ASAP. So you don't see many good Mexican amateurs as you once did but their style is perfect for the pro game, why there are so many good pro Mexican fighters.

[Dustaine]

they fight amateur their whole career and beat REAL AMATEURS..big deal.

A keyboard warrior. Cool.

[537Bwouaye]

People commenting this thread are dumb as fuk. As a matter of fact, Cuba is also the best producer of pro boxers. The proof is right now Cuba only has 50 professional boxers, one of them being an unified champ, two interim champs (who will probably become full champ this year - Rigondeaux and JP Hernandez), and some others to become.

Per pro capita, this makes Cuba the best at pro broxing. Just keep the same ratio and imagine if all of them could be pros. Also, over the last 50 years, this is the moment where Cuba reached the highest amount of pro boxers which, as mentionned before, it's only ~50. A few years back there were only like 15 pro Cubans and most of them were Cuban Americans boxing as a hobby. Compare that to the hundreds of Ricans, the thousands of Mexicans, the thousands of Americans... so yeah right cuba really sucks at pro boxing

[CubanGuyNYC]

Very few athletes can keep that pace up for 8,10 rounds let alone 12. So while Cubans are incredible amateurs, they will need time to adjust to the pro game once Cuba is really free and their people can come to the U.S much easier.

Puerto Rico is a great example, they were once a much better amateur program but PR's now train to be pro's and you can see it in their success.

Mexicans train almost exclusively for the pro's because they need to make that money ASAP. So you don't see many good Mexican amateurs as you once did but their style is perfect for the pro game, why there are so many good pro Mexican fighters.

All true. Puerto Ricans and Mexicans are well represented in the professional ranks. You've answered the question as to why these lands don't produce better amateurs: they focus on the pros. As for Cubans, not only are they limited to amateur athletics, they're stranded in a dictatorship. When Cubans are finally able to compete freely, they'll perform admirably in the pros.

[xcaret v4]

theres alot of great amateurs who never did anything pro cause they sucked or got ktfo early

[Kagami Taiga]

yea, like others have said, they produce the best amateur boxers in the world. if u wanna say that, u can. otherwise, there is just no evidence that their amateur boxers translate into pros very well. using gamboa as ur one example is faulty logic. otherwise we can say the Philippines produces the best boxers in the world as well.