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 ...

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 ...

At the Sydney Games in 2000, Cuban boxing great Felix Savon entered the history books as only the third boxer ever to win three straight Olympic titles. His exploit puts the heavyweight alongside ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was a gesture worth a thousand punches. Immediately before beginning ...

Mike Tyson’s reputation and appeal in the nineties remained such that two of the world’s leading promoters dreamed of matching him not with Lennox Lewis, or Evander Holyfield, but instead with Cuban ...

Cuba's Felix Savon won his third successive Olympic heavyweight gold medal today, equalling the achievement of compatriot Teofilo Stevenson after surviving a late injury scare. Savon, aged 33, beat ...

Le Cubain Félix Savon a dominé la boxe amateur pendant 14 ans dans la catégorie poids lourds. Il a remporté son premier titre de champion du monde en 1986, mais Cuba ayant boycotté les Jeux Olympiques ...

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.