The fight that has been rated as “the most important of his career”the Cuban boxer Yordenis Ugás has dedicated it to the political prisoners of the Island, as published on his social networks.
“My fight, as always, representing our island, Cuba, but especially to all those who want and wish for change. To all the political prisoners, to all the prisoners of 7/11. To all of us who suffered exile for thinking differently and because in our country you cannot live. Thank you. Homeland and life, “wrote the current professional world boxing champion in Instagram.
The boxer competes this Saturday against the unified world champion, the American Errol Spence Jr., at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Dallas, Texas. Both athletes will seek to unify the welterweight titles of the Association and the World Boxing Council, as well as the International Boxing Federation.
Ugás, along with his words on social networks, added a video where a compatriot wishes him luck in the competition; noticing, the boxer returns to greet him. “Thanks to each person who is coming to this stadium to support me, especially my Cubans, who are few but for me they are worth thousands,” he wrote.
“My fight as always representing our Island Cuba as well, but especially all those who wish and wish for a change”
Yordenis Ugás is a Cuban boxer who, in addition to hooks and rings, also knows very well the drama that thousands of his compatriots experience daily when they leave the Island.
In March 2010, he left his country on a boat, the goal was to reach the United States, but before that he made a stopover in Isla Mujeres, opposite Cancun, Mexico.
At the age of 24, he left his mother, Milagros, and the rest of his family in Santiago de Cuba. His future was in the power of his fists, though with a year out of training she knew it wouldn’t be easy.
In September 2020, he was crowned the world boxing champion in welterweight and in August 2021, Ugás defeated in the ring Manny Pacquiao, who tried to recover the title that the Cuban had won a year ago.
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