LIMA: Cuba landed the golden punch in the Pan Am Games boxing ring on Thursday, rolling out a lineup of Olympic and world champions to fight their way up the medal table.
There are few sports Cubans are more passionate about than boxing. The country's fighters are heroes and their achievements a source of immense national pride."We are the best in the world," said lightweight champion Lazaro Alvarez, who like many Cuban fighters dedicated his medal to Fidel Castro and the people of the island nation.
The evening began with an upset, though, when the Dominican Republic's Rodrigo Marte de la Rosa stopped Cuban world champion Yosbany Veitia in the flyweight gold medal clash. Then Cruz, the four-time world champion and gold medal winner at the Rio Olympics, took to the ring and breezed past Brazilian Marley Machado, walking off to a standing ovation wrapped in the Cuban flag.
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