The two-time Olympic champion Arlen López and two other Cubans will compete this Thursday in the first day of the boxing tournament of the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Games.
The Guantanamo boxer (80 kg) is the only one called to fight on the program that begins at 2:00 pm in a hall of the Salvadoran Foreign Ministry, where he is the competition favorite against the Costa Rican Víctor Alvarado.
In the evening at 7 o’clock at night, the waxed Erislán Romero (51 kg) and the universal subtitle Saidel Horta (57 kg) will fight, both are strong candidates for victories against the Nicaraguan Eykel Torres and the Colombian Yimal González, respectively.
Cuba registered complete squads and came to this city with the purpose of dominating among the men and demonstrating the possibilities of their ladies, in order to watch its immediate course.
