Greatest Olympic Class?

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  1. Bellewbomber

    Bellewbomber Active Member banned Full Member

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    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.

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  2. Bellewbomber

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    Audley would be the oldest undisputed champion in any weight.

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  3. Borincano

    Borincano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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.
     
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  4. Bellewbomber

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    1996 isn't so bad dominating.

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  5. Bellewbomber

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    Tyson types
     
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  6. Momus

    Momus Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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.
     
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  7. Momus

    Momus Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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
     
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  8. Longcount

    Longcount boxing Full Member

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    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
     
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  9. BUSTER

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    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
     
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  10. Stevie 79

    Stevie 79 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    My neighbour reresented GB at barcelona 92 alongside most a them guys also including delahoya , great days back then
     
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  11. The General

    The General Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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
     
    The General, Dec 18, 2014
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  12. BUSTER

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    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
     
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  13. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    2004 had Golovkin, Ward, Khan, Rigondeux off the top of my head.
     
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  14. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Every Olympics is going to have a lot of top talent.
     
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  15. joshuahilton18

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    2004 wasn't a bad bunch... Rigondeaux, Ward, Golovkin etc.
     
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