Alejandra “Locomotive” Oliveras, WBC super bantamweight world champion, made a confession that made the skin of social networks stand on end. The athletewho was a candidate for national deputy for the Unite Party, recounted the difficult moment she had to live before traveling to Mexico to fight for the world crown.
“Ten days before going to Mexico to fight for the world title, found my husband in bed with my own sister”, counted Oliveras on Urban Radio. On May 20, 2006, he had won the WBC super bantamweight title in Mexico, following beating Jackie Nava by knockout.
“I left with a broken heartI think I took revenge with Jackie Nava for what had happened to me, “he admitted Oliveraswho announced that the incident will be part of the series that the Amazon streaming platform would be producing regarding the history of his life.
“I wanted to die, it was a stab in the back. In order not to cry, I trained, because I felt that I might not suspend the dream of my life”, admitted the boxer, and continued: “It took me regarding a year to stabilize myself, to recover. At that time he was the love of my life. Being betrayed like that hurts to the bone.”
“I knew I was going to win because no one trained like me: I did 10 hours a day, from Monday to Monday,” said Oliveras, who assured that “boxing and sports” cured his anguishdespite the fact that she recognized that the life of a world champion or a high-performance athlete is very hard: “I haven’t had alcohol or eaten a potato chip for 22 years.”
“I slept on a mattress on the floor and worked in five gyms to feed my children,” he said, recalling his beginnings in the sport. “The blows of life are worse than those of the ringBecause you don’t expect them. The hardest fight is life, it’s getting up every day and saying ‘I’m not going to give up’”, he concluded.
