Felix Savón biography
Felix Savón , in full Felix Savón Fabré, (born April 22, 1967, San Vicente, Cuba), Cuban heavyweight boxer, who turned the second fighter to win three Olympic gold medals in the identical weight class and the primary to seize six world newbie boxing titles.
Savón, an imposing contender 6 ft 5 inches (1.96 metres) tall, rose to prominence in 1985 when he captured the heavyweight title on the world junior championships. A 12 months later he received the world championship, a feat he repeated in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1997. Unable to compete on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, due to a Cuban boycott, he made his Olympic debut on the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain, the place he received a gold medal. He defended his title on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and, along with his gold medal efficiency on the Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, Savón matched the feat of fellow countryman Teófilo Stevenson, who was the primary boxer to win three gold medals in the identical weight class. Savón additionally recorded first-place finishes within the Pan American Games (1987, 1991, and 1995) and the Goodwill Games (1990, 1994, and 1998). Scheduled to battle within the last of the 1999 world championships, he pulled out of the match after the Cuban delegation claimed that it had been the sufferer of a number of questionable choices through the competitors.
Savón turned down quite a few gives to field professionally and was pressured to retire in 2001 due to an International Amateur Boxing Association rule that prohibited amateurs from competing past their thirty fourth birthday. He then turned the coach of the Cuban nationwide group, which received medals—together with 5 gold—in 8 of the 11 weight lessons on the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.