The Cuban boxers won all the fights in which they intervened this Friday in a professional poster held at the Varadero spa.
Those of Cuba were imposed on five of the six fights of the evening, in front of fighters from the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Montenegro and Morocco. In those fights, continental and world titles of the World Boxing Association (AMB) were discussed.
This boxing tonight – as its organizers identified it – was the stage of the Meliá International Hotel, and only one of the fighting did not upload a fighter of the island to him.
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The cross sealed five triumphs, including fulminant knockout of Erislandy Álvarez and the one contributed by Yaquelín Estornell, the first female of the island in leaders of this type. #boxing #Boxeocubanhttps://t.co/11wlgj2koc pic.twitter.com/wr4SRRS2T5– Jit Cuban sport (@jit_digital) April 12, 2025
The Cuban Yakelín Estornell (66.6 kg), the first woman included by the island’s boxing federation on a professional poster, won the Dominican Lina Tejeda in a fight for four assaults for the only women participating in this poster.
Bronze medalist at the Central American and Caribbean Games, Estornell made a successful debut in professional pugilism by beating his opponent in the second round.
In the 58.9 kg fight, the Mozsa Moussa Ghalom beat Cuban Misael Vázquez, and won the continental gold title for AMB America.
Another member of the Cuban team, Arlen López (79.3 kg), twice Olympic champion, sealed his lawsuit against the Argentine Martín Ezequiel Bulacio.
Likewise, the three -time world gold and Olympic bronze of the island, the left -handed Lázaro Álvarez, of the 61.3 kg division, climbed into the ring and with an intense combination of blows left the young Dominican fighter Miguel Queliz Santos in the eighth assault against the ropes.
With his victory, Álvarez won the continental belt of America of the WBA.
The fifth and fastest confrontation of the night was the one starring Cuban Olympic champion Erislandy Álvarez, 23, who surprised to fulminate in just a few minutes from the first round to his Dominican rival Brainer Vásquez and thus added a new triumph to his palm male by winning the Latin American continental title of the AMB.
The golden brooch was put by the sixth and last fight of the night – shown to twelve assaults – with the victory of the Cuban Olympic Bicampeon Julio César La Cruz over the Montenegrino boxer Dilan Prasovic in the division of the 101.6 kg, and by the dispute of the final elimination phase towards the world title of the association.
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Although Passovic lay on the canvas to the cross at the beginning of the fight, the Cuban recovered to tear down the Montenegrino for four times with his blunt stuck and Ay in the third episode he rose with the final elimination phase towards the title of the Amb’s orb.
This top has as a history the first professional boxing tournament held in the Sports City of Havana in August 2024 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the World Boxing Championship, with the auspices of the International Boxing Association (I was, for its acronym in English).
In Cuba, professional boxing was prohibited since the early years of the sixties after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, and since then only amateur pugilism was practiced that came to locate the island as the second historical power of the discipline in the Olympic Games, with 80 medals.
In 2022, Cuba returned to the rented circuits when his team tamers debuted in a poster played in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes, after receiving permission from the Boxing Federation of the island.
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