Julio Cesar La Cruz is essentially the most adorned energetic newbie boxer on the planet.
The gifted Cuban has received gold on the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, in addition to a vastly spectacular 5 World Championships gold medals.
The 34-year-old welcomes the chance so as to add to his already spectacular haul when he heads to Paris for the upcoming 2024 Olympics.
“My fourth Olympic Video games will put me along with my teammate Roniel Iglesias as the one boxers with 4 Olympic video games [from Cuba,”] La Cruz instructed The Ring via Geraldo Saldivar.
“To win the third Olympic gold medal might be an honor, to be standing subsequent to our champions, Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson, the largest boxers in newbie boxing along with Laszlo Papp.”
Throughout his 20 plus years on the newbie scene he has seen all of it and received all of it.
In addition to the aforementioned titles he has claimed at the very least 11 nationwide titles, 4 Pan American Video games and three Central American and Caribbean Video games amongst different accolades.
La Cruz, who has over 300 newbie fights, has fought twice as knowledgeable in 2022. Nevertheless, he’s by no means totally transitioned to the skilled ranks like his countrymen Robeisy Ramirez, who received the WBO featherweight title, or the fast paced Andy Cruz, who has caught the attention.
“We’ll always remember or left behind what has makes our boxing nice and recognized in historical past and that’s Olympic boxing,” he support alluding to largely sticking with newbie boxing.
“[It] has been an important expertise [to] get entangled within the so referred to as skilled boxing however we consider we’ve been professionals at all times as we prepare all yr lengthy and never just for a struggle.”
Whilst you’d count on this to be his closing Olympics, he’s not clear on his future plans and is solely targeted on the right here and now.
“[The] future is unsure, however my profession in boxing will proceed with the identical starvation and want of success,” he stated.
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