Who in Cuba can run into a world boxing champion three or four times a day? I can. Who, in this country, can run into one of the five Cubans who have become part of this professional boxing elite, three or four times a day? I can. You see, Richard April, one of these select few, is currently debating whether to keep his belt or become a full-time pig farmer in Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud, where the simple mortal who writes these lines happens to live. He has just returned from the United States. When I contacted him for this interview, the first and only question on my mind was whether he was actually thinking about quitting boxing to raise pigs, but I opted not to make that my introduction, fearing that would make him evade the interview. What I didn’t know was that Richard April actually wanted to tell the world how happy he is with the pigs he is breeding, about his plans for his five-hectare farm on Isla de la Juventud and that he is certain his future is there – that boxing, as he put it, “is something that passes.” Why have you boxed so...