As the others filter back for training Monday morning, many do not return.
It's take four of us at dinner to name everybody missing.
Acevedo addresses all of us after we have eaten.
"Comrades.
We were not born to be losers.
Does anybody here feel like a loser?
No on in this room is a loser. Nobody.
Let me talk to you about winners."
Acevedo then read from a piece of paper the boxing achievements of Cuba, of the medals and the champions.
He talked of the positives from the championships in Buenos Aires and how he envisioned the future of Cuban boxing.
"Viva Cuba. Viva Revolution."
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"I occasionally agreed to carry an opponent, almost always in what is known as a tune-up fight. I never considered it morally wrong as long as I was winning the fight. I was never a killer, like some fighters. I never enjoyed knocking out a guy who I knew had no chance to beat me." Sugar Ray Robinson
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