Teofilo Stevenson - Emotional Highlights/Tribute (PRIME)

Teofilo Stevenson - Emotional Highlights/Tribute (PRIME) Teófilo Stevenson, (born March 29, 1952, Las Tunas, Oriente, Cuba—died June 11, 2012, Havana), Cuban heavyweight boxer who became the first fighter to win three Olympic gold medals in one weight class and one of only two to win three World Amateur Boxing titles. The 6-ft 3-in () Stevenson shocked the boxing world in the quarterfinals of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich by defeating the highly touted American Duane Bobick, who had beaten Stevenson the previous year in the Pan American Games. Stevenson won the gold medal by default when Ion Alexe of Romania was unable to fight in the final because of a broken thumb. At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Stevenson crushed his first three opponents in a record 7 min 22 sec, then knocked out Mircea Simon of Romania in the final. István Levai of Hungary used an evasive strategy in the semifinals of the 1980 Games in Moscow to become the first Olympic boxer to go the distance with Stevenson, but Stevenson p