Vasyl Lomachenko Oleksandr Usyk Oleksandr Gvozdyk Ievgen Khytrov Denys Berinchyk Taras Shelestyuk Pavel Ischenko Unbelievable team..
Berinchyk is basically a Lomachenko copy but just not as polished. And what happened to Ischenko? Only fought once this year. 10 months without a fight.
I dont´t know anything. Not bothered to google either. A while back someone made a thread about these guys and their potential, i was shocked to see how inactive he is. But he is youngest of the bunch.
I think the Ukrainian 2012 team are true contenders. The USA Olympic team of 1984 are probably the greatest. 9 Gold Medalists including Breland, Whitaker and Taylor. 1 silver by HOF'er Virgil Hill and 1 Bronze by one of the best ever in pros, Holyfield. They medalled everywhere other than Bantamweight.
Only Robert Shannon didn't medal, but Cuba and the URSS weren't in those games, i was planning making a thread about it but i lost my notes, still i think that Breland, Whitaker and Taylor would have won the gold.
The problem was that Page, Tate, Tillman, McCrory and Biggs were considered to have gift decisions trough the tournament, those are 5/9 of the gold medalists.
The team was solid tho and archived a lot of pro success. The 76 USA team maybe was stronger with the members winning most of their fights by KO and archieved both pro and olympic success.
It was an incredible team: Usyk = One of the greatest ever fighters, Undisputed at heavyweight and cruiserweight Lomachenko = modern day pro great, greatest ever amateur, first ballot hall of famer, 3 weight world champ Gvozdyk - excellent world champ, who ended Stevensons 6 year run as champ brutally. Berinchyk - world champion, just schooled Navarette last night. [I think Khytrov and Shelestyuk (still undefeated) would have done more as well with better backing]