The Domadores team from Cuba premiered at the professional boxing circuit, on a billboard in front of Mexican boxers. The Cubans swept with knockouts in five of the six fights held in Aguascalientes, reported state media.
Osvel Caballero, Yoenlis Feliciano, Roniel Iglesias and Arlen López and Julio César La Cruz won their opponents before the final sixth round, on a night in which only three-time world champion Lázaro Álvarez needed to complete his fight with Francisco Mercado.
“I went up to the ring to do my fight, round by round, to wear it down and connect cleanly, as it happened,” said the experienced Cuban boxer, who convinced the judges by winning by unanimous vote (3-0).
The rest of the poster was almost a formality for the Domadores, where the victory of the semi-complete two-time Olympic champion Arlen López stood out, who knocked out his opponent Fernando Galván, with a powerful left swing, just in the second minute of the first round.
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Brandon Pérez, Joshman Reyes, Juan Carlos Raygosa were the remaining Aztec fighters who fell to the in-ring prowess of Roniel Iglesias, Osvel Caballero and Yoenlis Feliciano, respectively.
The closing of the day was the fight of the also double Olympic monarch Julio César La Cruz against the experienced Colombian Deivis Cásseres, whom he left on the canvas just in the second round to finalize the victory of the Cuban team.
Before this presentation in Mexico, Cuban amateur boxers had ventured in 2014 into semi-professional competitions of the World Series of Boxing (WSB)when the Domadores de Cuba won three of the five editions in which they participated, the last one in 2018.
