Felix Savon dominated amateur heavyweight (201 lbs) boxing circles between 1985 when he won the Junior World Championship in Bucharest,Romania out pointing Poland's Andrew Golota, until the 2000 ...

Michael Bennett’s Olympic dream ended short of a medal Tuesday as heavyweight Felix Savon of Cuba outpointed him enough through three rounds to force a stoppage by Olympic rules. Bennett came out ...

Chicago heavyweight Michael Bennett won his first amateur boxing gold medal Thursday night at the world championships in Houston, but he didn’t get to fight for the victory. Instead, Bennett was ...

HAVANA — Shannon Briggs caught a glimpse of amateur boxing heaven yesterday afternoon. A giant ABC television lens peered into the ring as the U.S. heavyweight blew kisses. Boxing aficionados — about ...

According to numerous publications in Cuba, highly regarded boxing great Felix Savon - a three time Olympic champion - is behind bars on the island, after being accused of raping a minor. One of the ...

Director Peter Berg’s latest documentary, The People’s Fighters (which is available to stream on the Olympic Channel), opens with five Cuban boxing legends — including four Olympic gold medalists, and ...

Cuban Felix Savon was the best amateur heavyweight boxer in the 1990s. He won three Olympic gold medals, a feat he shares with only two others – his late compatriot Teofilo Stevenson and Hungary’s ...

Anthony Joshua could hardly have hand-picked a more heavyweight name to be standing in the opposite corner of the boxing ring when he makes his Olympic Games debut in his home city on Wednesday night.

Only three boxers have ever won three consecutive gold medals. Two of them, Cuban heavyweights Teofilo Stevenson (1972, 1976 and 1980) and Felix Savon (1992, 1996 and 2000) did it over a span of eight ...