Cuban boxer Osvel Caballero, winner of a gold medal at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 2021 Belgrade Boxing World Cup, will not return to the island after appearing in Mexico. The information was confirmed on his Facebook page by the Cuban team, the Domadores, after Caballero’s victory against the Mexican boxer Gerson. Tiger escobar.
The brief statement accuses the Cuban of trampling on “the contracted commitment” and of being “out of touch with his contractual obligations.” Shortly before the escape, the official media Hit had praised the “effective combinations, technique and physical ability” of Caballero, who had achieved the fifteenth consecutive win for his team on the professional boxing circuit.
In a interview to a Colombian media, the player had referred to the expulsion of the Tamers of his partner Andy Cruz, after he tried to escape. “Each person in the world makes their own decisions, whether it’s for the better, whether it’s for the worse,” he said then.
In the interview, Osvel Caballero also alluded to the fact that he would fight to reach the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which will take place between July and August of that year, in the 57-kilogram category, but also of the great opportunity which represents that the fights are agreed outside of Cuba. “Everything is step by step, little by little I am resolving fights,” he said, without his words anticipating his imminent plans.
The information was confirmed on its Facebook page by the Cuban team, the Domadores, after Caballero’s victory against the Mexican boxer Gerson Tigre Escobar.
Without giving details about his time as a professional, Caballero commented that the Golden Ring promoter, which has a signed agreement with the Island to organize the Cubans’ fights, pays them after the match is over. Of that money, he affirmed, a percentage is for the coach.
According to data from the Boxing Federation, collected by the AP agency, professional boxers receive 80% of the purse for the fight, 15% to the coach and 5% is distributed among the federation’s medical team.
Caballero made the same decision as Billy Rodríguez last August, when he fled after his triumphant debut against Mexican Miguel Ángel Luna. Billy The Kid he settled in Miami and signed with a promoter to boost his professional career.
The escapes of Caballero and Rodríguez are two hard losses for Cuban sports, which is going through a crisis generated by the escape of athletes. The list of fugitives includes Olympic and world champions such as the wrestler Ishmael Borrerothe canoeist Fernando Dayan or the discus thrower Yaime Perez.
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