Born June 1929 in Rio Piedras (now a part of San Juan), Juan Evangelista Venegas Trinidad was Puerto Rico's first Olympian. He would get into boxing as a teenager idolizing Sixto Escobar, the island's first world champion. He is recruited to Puerto Rico's twelve athlete Olympic team not long afterward. JUAN EVANGELISTA VENEGAS IN THE […]

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