With fighters like Pernell Whitaker you can literally show the great fighters he beat in the amateurs. But a lot of these Tyrell Biggs' they never beat the world's #1. [yt]HATduBe_2SI[/yt] [yt]5Quj9DBMiZ8[/yt]
1984 Class was the best with Whitaker, Holyfield, Tillman, Biggs, Taylor, Hill, Tate, Breland, McCrory, Gonzalez, and Page. I believe seven out of eleven became champions, all time greats include Whitaker and Holyfield.
If we're talking about how successful they were as pros, 84 gets my vote. In addition to the Americans you had: Lewis Fenech Damiani Havna Christophe Tiozzo Hiranaka Stecca Clinton ....all of whom won world titles (admittedly with one or two asterisks in there) There were also familiar names like Alex Stewart and Drake Thadzi. If you picked the best from the entire field, I can't think of any other tournaments that can top Holyfield, Whitaker, Lewis, Taylor, Fenech and Hill as a top 6.
Jeez, 88 is actually more stacked than you might think: Lewis Bowe Mercer Golota Maske Ottke Jones Woodhall Nardiello Boudouani Quartey Tszyu Tuur McKinney Carbajal McCullough
Yeah, there are even more world class operators when you dig (below). When you look at 88 though you need to taken into account the Cuban non-participation. Michael Carbajal Wayne McCullough Johnny Bredahl Kennedy McKinney Regilio Tuur Giovanni Parisi Kostya Tszyu Ike Quartey Laurent Boudouani Segundo Mercado Roy Jones Jr. Vincenzo Nardiello Richard Woodhall Sven Ottke Henry Maske Andrzej Golota Ray Mercer Rid**** Bowe Lennox Lewis
HOPEFULLY WITH THE SAME CONVERSATION IN A FEW YEARS 2012 MIGHT GET A MENTION THE LIKES OF JOSHUA CAMPBELL NEVIN SHIMMING RAMERIEZ MURATYA Egor Mekhontsev Oleksandr Usyk OSCAR VALDEZ EROL SPENCE AND OBVIOUSLY LOMACHENKO
My neighbour reresented GB at barcelona 92 alongside most a them guys also including delahoya , great days back then
thats not even the half of it add these to it Ireland - Barnes,Conlon,Nevin Azerbajian - Medzhidov Cuba - Savon, De La Cruz, Iglesias, Toledo,Alvarez,Ramirez,Veitia Kazakhstan - Dychko, Niyazymbetov ,Yeleussinov,Suleimenov ,Zhakypov Russia - Omarov, Beterbeiv, mekhontsev, Zamkovoy,Aloyan Austrailia - Opetaia Brazil - Falcão, Florentino, Lopes, Conceição Ukraine - Gvodzsyk, Khytrov,Lomachenko,Usyk, Shelestyuk,Berinchyk Uzbekistan - Atoev USA - Spence,Ramirez,Diaz Mexico - Valdez Japan - Murata UK- Campbell, Joshua,Selby Lithuania - Kavaliauskas , Petrauskas Puerto Rico - Verdejo, Cintron, Ortiz Mongolia - Tögstsogt if they all turned over they would change boxing
yeah some great boxers in there unfortunatly i dint have time to look into all of then lol just off top of my head but some quality boxers there