MIAMI, United States. — Professional boxing is already beginning to pay attention to Cuban Olympic champion Andy Cruz, who recently left the island for Dominican Republic.
according to the newspaper The New Heraldthe presence of the Tokyo 2020 monarch in Quisqueya has not gone unnoticed by either the promoting companies or his potential opponents, some of them old acquaintances from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) circuit.
“It is good that he has come to professionalism because we all know that there are good boxers in Cuba. I am happy for the doors that can be opened for him, but I don’t know how good he can be among the professionals,” said the American fighter Keyshawn Davis in statements collected by the Miami media.
Davis, 23, was the victim of the Cuban boxer in three successive finals: the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, the 2019 Yekaterinburg World Championship, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Andy Cruz’s proven quality has made other American fighters also enthusiastic about the Cuban’s eventual arrival on the professional circuit.
“I’m going to spar with him as soon as he’s here,” wrote Shakur Stevenson, for many the northern boxer with the greatest projection and future, on social networks.
At the end of last June, the 26-year-old from Matanzas was surprised by the Cuban authorities while trying to leave the country with baseball prospect César Yanquiel Hernández. As a consequence, both spent several days in prison.
On Monday, July 18, 2022, the Cuban National Boxing Commission reported that Cruz had been expelled from official sports activities on the island for his “repeated indiscipline.”
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