Last July the National Boxing Commission of Cuba reported that the boxer Andy Cruz (27 years old) was caught in a failed attempt to leave the country illegally and, as a result, “he was expelled from Cuban sports for his repeated indiscipline,” which included, always according to the Cuban organization , his absence in previous training sessions in the tournament Giron Beach and “his non-interference in that event, was the most important to the discipline organized in the island.”
Now, five months later, it has been revealed the tokyo olympic champion At -63 kilos and a three-time world champion, he has definitely left his past behind and is training to make the jump to professionalism, despite his age. “I’m ready for the big challenge ahead of me and I intend to do great things in professional boxing,” Andy Cruz said in his interview via videoconference on ‘Knockout’, American sports channel.
Cruz’s flight is among the long list of Cuban athletes who have decided to “desert” from their country and it is undoubtedly a severe setback for ‘tamers’, officially known as Tamers Cuba Boxing Team (the name of the Cuban franchise participating in world series of boxing organized by OTHER. This franchise appeared in 2013 after negotiations between the organizing committee of the event and the Cuban Boxing Federation), after the fugue to Mexico in 2018 by the two-time Olympic champion Robey Ramirez, now wrapped under the banner of USA; not to mention the fighter Ismael Borreroof the discus thrower Yaime Perezof the canoeist Fernando Dayan or the Spanish boxer Emmanuel Reyes Pla. known as ‘the income’Emmanuel was born Havana and went to Spain because of the lack of opportunities. So far, he has a World Cup bronze and a silver at a European.
Cruz, who has officially not boxed since November 13, 2021, losing to Rotterdam (Netherlands) in the view of James Delano, He has played 140 matches so far. 9 of them were early wins, with nine losses, and he was released along with the baseball player Cesar Yanquiel Hernandez five months ago after they were arrested in wow, Province of Holguin, in Cuba, after trying to leave the island illegally.
“My dream is not fading. You will know when it comes. I will have the titles,” read the tweet he posted on his Twitter account, an account that he should renew (he introduces himself as a Cuban boxer) and not he is very active.
Release of ‘Tamers’
Cruz’s replacement is world bronze medalist and Pan American champion Osvel Caballero, who also stepped down after picking up his third win as a professional. He is the second member of the Cuba Tamers who decided to leave the team and try to continue his sports career without ties to the island state’s sports institutions; to which boxers Billy Rodríguez, Albert González and Carlos Castillo (+92 kg) were added.
Source: La Verdad
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