Four cuban boxers They will fight over the next few days in new events organized by the International Boxing Association (IBA), including one of the World Boxing Tour 2022 to be held in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.
The double Olympic champion Arlen López (80 kilograms) will debut against the Moroccan Mohamed Assaghir during the undercard in the Mexican city, in which the star will also venture Julius Caesar the Cross (92 kg), according to a note published by the sports portal Hit.
Cuban fighters will face international commitments
the world #boxing Tour and the promotional poster of the IBA Pro Series will receive well-known exponents of #Cuba #Boxinghttps://t.co/lJOTgZB94s pic.twitter.com/C1fCmEyKuy— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) December 2, 2022
The World Boxing Tour is a circuit of four levels (Diamond, Gold, Silver and Bronze Belts) that, in addition to greater training opportunities, offers boxers more lucrative incentives, in particular the cash prize awarded to its medalists, as well as the distribution of points for the ranking world.
La Cruz, a two-time Olympic champion, will face the host Carlos Antonio Rodríguez in this event with the Golden Belt category, adds the information.
Both boxers are part of the Domadores de Cuba franchise, inserted since last May in the professional circuits of this sport by the Mexican promoter Golden Ring, which signed a representation agreement with the Cuban Boxing Federation.
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It also transpired that the two-time Olympic champion Roniel Iglesias (71 kg) and the universal monarch Yoenlis Hernández (75 kg), also members of the Domadores, will take on lawsuits included in a promotional poster for the IBA Pro Series, agreed for the next 11 of December in Abu Dhabi.
Both Iglesias and Hernández still do not know their opponents in that event, to be held one day before the start of the Global Boxing Forum, which will host the capital of the United Arab Emirates, said Hit.
According to the head of the IBA, the Russian Umar Kremlev, who was recently in visit on the islandthis conclave has been conceived as an opportunity to discuss the challenges of this sport, and will have among its key moments an extraordinary congress of the entity.
During his stay in Havana, the executive was received by President Miguel Díaz-Canel and toured the Holveín Quesada National Boxing School, which he intends to convert, together with the Cuban authorities of this sport, into an international training center.
