Editing Teófilo Stevenson (section)

===Prime years===
Stevenson did the same at the inaugural [[1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships|1974 World Championships]] in [[Havana]], Cuba, and then in the [[1976 Summer Olympics]], held in [[Montreal]], Stevenson repeated the feat once again. By then, he had become a national hero in Cuba. This was the point where he was the closest to signing a professional contract, as American fight promoters offered him US$5 million to challenge world heavyweight champion [[Muhammad Ali]].<ref name = "bbc death">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18405802|title=Cuban boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson dies|publisher=BBC News|date=12 June 2012|access-date=12 June 2012}}</ref> If he had accepted, it would have made Stevenson the second boxer to go straight from the Olympics into a professional debut with the world's heavyweight crown on the line, after [[Pete Rademacher]]. Stevenson refused the offer, however, asking "What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"<ref name="PBS">{{cite web |title=Sport in Cuba: The Diamond in the Rough|work=[[Public Broadcasting Service]]|url=https://www.pbs.org/stealinghome/sport/diamond.html|access-date=30 June 2006}}</ref> Stevenson went to the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in Moscow and became the second boxer ever, after Papp, to win three Olympic boxing gold medals. The Moscow Games were the 19th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games.

Stevenson participated at the [[1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships]] in Munich, but lost to the eventual silver medalist and future professional world champion [[Francesco Damiani]] from Italy. This fight ended an eleven-year unbeaten run by Stevenson and was the only occasion that he did not win the gold medal at the World Championships when he entered the competition.

His loss by a split decision to Aleksandr Lukstin of the Soviet Union in the finals of the 1983 Córdova Cardín, as the Soviet head coach Kontsantin Koptsev later admitted, was due to a plaster-like tape they [[Hand wrap|handwrapped]] Lukstin's fists with instead of a regular elastic-band hand wrapping.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3NN7YY4cM&t=1804 Территория бокса – Андрей Курнявка и Константин Копцев (Выпуск 28)] (in Russian)</ref>

Stevenson might have won a fourth gold medal at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]], but the [[Soviet Union]] boycotted the games, which were hosted by Los Angeles, in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow competition. Cuba followed the Soviet lead, and Stevenson did not compete.<ref name = "bbc death"/> For consolation, he beat future Olympic champion [[Tyrell Biggs]] in February 1984 (breaking three ribs in the process) and won the super heavyweight gold at the [[Boxing at the Friendship Games|1984 Friendship Games]], defeating [[Ulli Kaden]] of [[East Germany]] and, in the final, Valeriy Abadzhyan of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/OlympicGames1984FT.html|title=Friendhips Tournament - Havana, Cuba - August 18-24 1984|publisher=amateur-boxing.strefa.pl |access-date=2019-03-05}}</ref>
At the [[1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships]], he won the super heavyweight gold, defeating [[Alex Garcia (boxer)|Alex Garcia]] from the United States in the final. Stevenson retired from boxing shortly after the [[1988 Summer Olympics]], which Cuba also boycotted.<ref name = "bbc death"/>