Monday, 11 June 2012

Cuban boxing great Teofilo Stevenson dead at 60: state media (Reuters)

Retired Cuban boxer and triple Olympic champion Teofilo Stevenson talks to Reuters while showing a belt given to him as a present with a little pin of Muhammad Ali attached to it, in Havana January 10, 2007. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa (CUBA)

HAVANA (Reuters) - - Cuban heavyweight boxing great Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals but turned down a chance to fight Muhammad Ali for $5 million, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60, Cuban state media reported on Monday.




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