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Changing Cuba may alter the face of boxing

By William Dettloff
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, March 2, 2008

It is a common belief among many boxing people, if a mostly unspoken one, that Fidel Castro has ruined more fighters than have drink and dirty promoters combined. By steadfastly prohibiting Cuban boxers from competing as professionals on the world's largest sporting stages, he effectively doomed all of them to lives of a sort of enchanted torture. They know they are among the best on the planet at what they do but can neither prove it against other professionals, nor use it to better their l ...

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