• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 02 / 02 / 2012

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The Cuban boxing star Teofilo Stevenson has performed well in their recovery from vascular disease that made him spend several days in intensive care. The three-time Olympic champion and is now back at home.

"I'm fine without any major problems," he told the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina Stevenson, also a former world champion said, noting that "excellently to treatment with serum and blood thinners" that was submitted for "several days" in hospital .

Considered the best amateur boxer in history, Stevenson explained that during a routine medical checkup were detected him "some clots" in an artery near the heart, and received a medical discharge last Friday after receiving treatment.

Famous for demolishing paid, Stevenson reigned for nearly two decades in the heavyweights. He won Olympic titles-1972 Munich, Montreal and Moscow-1976-1980, and had been able to reach those in Los Angeles and Seoul-1984-1988, the tournament that Cuba did not attend for political reasons.

Hung up his gloves after winning his third title at the World Boxing Reno-1986, by knocking in the fight for the gold by Alex Garcia. He had previously won in Havana and Belgrade-1974-1978.

Born in the town of Puerto Padre, in the eastern province of Las Tunas, gained during his 20 year career (1966-1986) 301 of the 321 contested fights, but his nemesis was the Russian Igor Visotski, the only foreign fighter that managed to beat him twice without that he could beat him.

According to Prensa Latina, Stevenson, who now works in the Cuban Boxing Federation and the National Commission on Care for Athletes of the Cuban Institute of Sports, reiterated his confidence in "the quality of Cuban boxing" and predicted that the island "will have new champions Olympics "in London-2012.

"We can outperform Beijing with a gold-2008," added the legendary boxer. In China, the Cuban boxing medals won four silver and four bronze.