Boxing legend retires
NZPA-Reuter Havana The Cuban boxer, Teofilo Stevenson, who won the Olympic heavyweight title three times and rejected a million dollars to turn professional, has formally hung up his gloves at the age of 36. People in his home town of Last Tunas, in eastern Cuba, lined the streets on Sunday to give Stevenson a hero’s farewell after he announced during an international boxing contest that he was quitting the ring. Stevenson, who won 301 of .the 321 bouts he fought during a career spanning 22 years, was the only man besides Hungary’s Laszlo Papp to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in boxing, at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 games. Also a triple world amateur champion from 1974 to 1986, he was denied an almost certain fourth Olympic triumph because of a Sovietled boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles games.
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Press, 6 July 1988, Page 44
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