Cuban central province wins national boxing tournament

SANCTI SPIRITUS, Cuba, Jan 15 (ACN) With 36 points and two gold medals, the team from Sancti Spiritus won the Playa Giron national boxing tournament, which concluded on Sunday at the Yayabo Hall, in this city.

The boxers of this province did not have a very effective result in this final day, as they had seven men fight and only the international Jorge Cuellar (75 kgs) and the supercomplete Adonis Iznaga were successful.

But Iznaga's victory by RSC-I (wounded) in the first round against the favorite runner-up Fernando Arzola (SCU), boosted the locals, who only got one point over Cienfuegos (36). The monarch Camagüey was displaced to third place (29).

The surprise of the day was provided by Giorvis Salfran (52 kgs) from the eastern province of Guantanamo, who did not stop throwing punches and knew how to defend his hands and torso well to defeat 3-2 the favorite from Sncti Spiritus Alejandro Claro, 2023 world bronze medalist.

The best was for five-time world champion and double Olympic champion Julio Cesar La Cruz (92 kgs), who, in a repeat of the final two years ago, once again unanimously defeated Freddy Perez from Santiago de Cuba, with his traditional boxing riposta.

Thus, the captain of the Domadores de Cuba reached 13 national titles to equal that record with the crack Felix Savon.

As the most technical boxer was selected Arlen Lopez (81 kgs), the most combative was Jorge Cuellar (75) and the best fight was developed by the winner Saidel Horta (57 kgs), world runner-up in 2023 and Yosbany Venetia, world gold medalist in 2017.