Castro's ban on professional sports has been lifted, putting boxers back in the ring and athletes back on the world stage. Yet most are still motivated by national pride rather than the lure of foreign cash.
Fidel Castro banned professional sports including boxing in 1961, that ban is now lifting and this story follows the track of a very young patriotic street boxer Cesar in Havana through to a Cuban defector and light heavyweight, Yunieski "The Diamond" Gonzalez, training in Miami.