Julio César la Cruz (2016 at light heavyweight, 2021 at heavyweight), Arlen López (2016 at middleweight, 2021 at light heavyweight), and Roniel Iglesias (2012 at lightweight, 2021 at welterweight) were the first group of Olympic gold medalists still fighting for the national team to make their professional debut in May 2022 on a card in Mexico. Erislandy Alvarez made his professional debut in early 2023 and later captured a gold medal in the 2024 Olympics to become the 42nd and most recent entrant into the Cuban Olympic gold medalists club. At the time this article was written, la Cruz, López, Iglesias and Alvarez were a cumulative 20-0 (11 KOs), all having cruised against overmatched opposition in those fights.
