Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
"Everyone has a price, but everyone's price isn't money", says former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson about Teófilo Stevenson, Cuba's most historic athlete and undoubtedly the greatest boxer to never fight for money. A man so loyal to his country, it's former leader Fidel Castro and it's socialist system, that taking the millions promoters offered him to turn professional would have been a betrayal to that system and to the people of Cuba whom he valued more than currency.
Stevenson would famously repeat the phrase "what's a million dollars compared to 8 million Cubans."
