olympic heavyweight gold medalist to go on and win to be a heavyweight champ ? its for a pub quiz tonight
Lewis = Super Heavyweight at amateur. Ali = Light Heavyweight at amateur. Klitschko = Super Heavyweight at amateur. Don't know if this makes a difference.
then after that the olympic heavyweight belt was held by one cuban fighter until cuba boycotted the olympics.
michael spinks won the middleweight belt while leon spinks won the light heavyweight but they became heavyweight champions when they turned pro.