the body of the
Relatives, relatives, friends and well-known boxers from the Caribbean region arrived at the Legal Medicine facilities, who between hugs, sobs, tears and deep pain that was reflected on their facesclung to the bars that separated them from the guardhouse waiting for him to come outfinally, the body of who was considered “the warrior of boxing”.
Miguel Guzmán, his personal trainer for 5 years, arrived in the Los Andes neighborhood around 10:00 am and might not help but break down in tears at the departure of the young man from Santander, who was also seeking to fulfill “his American dream”
“A son left me. I am very hurt, but I want you to know that life goes on and we must move forward. The only boxer I left the keys to my gym with was him. When I arrived, Luis had already done the cleaning, everything was already arrangedHe was very committed. When I traveled, he made my custom ones and earned that talk. He was very passionate,” he said.
With the passage of time, more people approached Legal Medicine, some a little regretful, others skeptical.
“With experts and boxing specialists we have analyzed the video moments before his collapse and we do not see a forceful blow in that fight, We don’t know what happened because he was in high spirits, he really wanted to, what happened hurts us a lot,” Hernández stressed.
Mourning in Colombian boxing for Quiñónez
“Mourning in boxing” is what his friends, relatives and boxing partners claimed, who felt that the loss of the 24-year-old young man from Santanders left “a deep void” in Colombian sports.
José Ricaurte, a close friend and also the father of a boxer, pointed out that “there will be no one like him, because that passion was mixed with intensity and discipline, what was possibly going to lead him to be one of the greatest in Colombian sport. It hurts us a lot, it hurts us all.”
The last interview of Luis Quiñones
The boxer who lost his life following being knocked out in the ring while seeking the national title in the junior welterweight category, A day before getting into the ring, he said in an interview that the fight might end in a knockout.
In said interview he assured that the knockout might come alone because both he and his opponent, José Muñoz, also a boxer, had prepared a lot and that on the day of the fight they would leave him off the ropes the friendship that united them for so many years to pursue the individual goal of winning the victory belt.
“Yes it comes out, it comes out, but you don’t have to look for it because the time will come for a hook to the liver, a ‘crusader’ to the jaw. That leads me to think that there are chances of knocking out because we have prepared hard and we are much more prepared than before,” he said in the interview.
To this prediction —said between laughs— while looking at José, he added words of affection towards who would be his rival, towarning regarding the great friendship that united them at the time.
“We are rivals. On top of the ring, we are rivals. Outside of it, we have a great friendship, but we are going with everything. We have prepared for this fight and there is no feeling, we are just rivals and we have to give everything to become champion. He he is a very good boxer, he has a lot of staminae, so we have to be smart, not go blow by blow, you to you,” he said.
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