I'm sure you've all heard about the basketball dream team, where they allowed professionals to play, and the USA team dominated. If you could build a USA team for the Olympics with peak fighters from any era, professional or amateur, who would you pick to get the job done in 3 rounds? Weight classes are: Heavyweight: Unlimited Light heavyweight: 178 lbs limit Middleweight: 165 Welterweight: 152 Lightweight: 132 Bantamweight: 123 Flyweight: 114
HW- Sonny Liston LH- Ezzard Charles MW- Gerald McClellan WW- Sugar Ray Robinson LW- Benny Leonard BW- Jeff Chandler (only good USA bantamweight I know) FW- pass (again don't really know any USA fw)
3 round amatuer style fights being the key factor I'm going with: Ali 201+ Holyfield 201 M. Spinks 178 Ottke 165. (Don't laugh, he had a hell of a amatuer record in a three round format with his style) Sugar Ray R. 152 Sweat Pea 132 Jofre 123 Too sharp 114 I put an emphasis on guys that were successful amauters. It is almost a totally differant game from the pros.
Guess I'll do the UK, 'cus I'm British. Heavyweight: Lennox Lewis Light heavyweight: Joe Calzaghe Middleweight: Bob Fitzsimmons (Turpin if he doesn't count) Welterweight: Ted Kid Lewis Lightweight: Freddie Welsh Featherweight: Naseem Hamed Bantamweight: Owen Moran Flyweight: Jimmy Wilde
Heavyweight: Ali (his style suits the amateur division) Light Heavy: Ezzard Charles Middle: Marvin Hagler Welter: Ray Robinson Light: Joe Gans Bantamweight: Terry McGovern Flyweight: Jimmy Wilde
The consensus among the most knowledgeable posters on this forum is that Joltin Jeff is the greatest H2H Bantamweight ATG so you should likely get a gold with this pick! Good shout
Donaire is a big favorite over Chandler and KOs him. I also thinks Fenech would be a clear favorite over Chandler