Can you name amateur fights where two future professional champs met?

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  1. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Some that come to mind off the top of my head are:

    * Aaron Pryor vs. Thomas Hearns
    * Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Bruce Curry
    * Aaron Pryor vs. Hilmer Kenty
    * Lennox Lewis vs. Riddick Bowe
    * Ray Mercer vs. Tommy Morrison
    * Ray Mercer vs. Michael Bentt
    * Ruslan Chagaev vs. Sultan Ibragimov
    * Joel Casamayor vs. Wayne McCullough
    * Herbie Hide vs. Henry Akinwande
    * Tony Tubbs vs. Greg Page (like a half-dozen times)
    * Jermain Taylor vs. Felix Sturm
    * Roy Jones vs. Frankie Liles
    * Roy Jones vs. Gerald McClellan
    * Roy Jones vs. Richie Woodhall
    * Vernon Forrest vs. Kostya Tszyu
    * Vernon Forrest vs. Shane Mosley
    * Vernon Forrest vs. Stevie Johnston

    Can you think of others?
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

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    Matt Korobov fought the likes of GGG, Derevyanchenko, Danny Jacobs, Badou Jack, Oleksandr Usyk and Sergey Kovalev in the amateurs. It's actually an exceptional résumé.

    Beterbeiv beat Gvozdyk, Kovalev and Usyk (among others, I'm sure). GGG fought Bute, Korobov, Dirrell and Lee.
     
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  3. TipNom

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    Shawn Porter and Oleksandr Usyk
     
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  4. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ray Leonard also beat Ronnie Shields and Hilmer Kenty in the amateurs.

    Eddie Mustafa Muhammad defeated Vito Antuofermo.
     
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  5. William Walker

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    i didn't know Muhammad and Antuofermo fought in the amateurs. I wish they'd fought in the pros.
     
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    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ray Robinson vs Wille Pep (Robinson)
    Mark Breland vs Chris Eubank (Breland)
    Michael Nunn vs Frank Tate (split fights)
    Michael Nunn vs Virgil Hill (split fights)
    Gerald McClellan vs Frank Liles (G-Man)
    Joe Calzaghe vs Glenn Catley (Calzaghe)
     
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  7. Henry Hank

    Henry Hank Mexicans Run Houston Full Member

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    Joan Guzman vs Omar Narvaez
    Floyd Mayweather vs Martin Castillo
    Antonio Tarver vs Vassily Jirov
    Stevie Johnston vs Winky Wright
    Andre Ward vs Tim Bradley

    And countless others the most curious to me is Vince Phillips having wins over Johny Tapia and Riddick Bowe dont even know how thats possible.
     
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  8. Saintpat

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    Eddie turned pro in the fall of 1972 and was still somewhere in the middle (and now super middle) range into 1976. Beat Cyclone Hart by decision and dropped a split verdict to Bennie Briscoe.

    By 1977 he was a full-blown light heavy and beat Matthew Saad Muhammad that year.

    I think his frame was too big to make 160 any longer and there wasn’t a 168 where he could stop over, and he was definitely a true 175 most of his career, but he was obviously viable as a middleweight as long as he was able to stay in that division.

    Vito turned pro in 1971 and was a career middleweight, so there was certainly a window of several years where they were in the same weight class and experience range where it could have happened.
     
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  9. sweetsci

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    Marvin Camel vs. Marvin Johnson
     
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    Jim Watt KOd John H Stracey inside a round in 68 to win ABAs
     
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  11. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Corbett Vs Choynski if you count Choynski's Light Heavyweight title
     
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  12. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    You sure about that one?
     
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  13. Henry Hank

    Henry Hank Mexicans Run Houston Full Member

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    In one of Phillips fights on ESPN against Jesse Feliciano (pretty good fight) they listed Vinces wins over Tapia and Bowe in the ams as curious facts about him so going by them it happened. how ?i have no clue.
     
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  14. NoNeck

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    Tarver—Jones
    De La Hoya—Mosley
     
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  15. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Shawn Porter beat Demetrius Andrade.

    Demetrius Andrade beat Danny Jacobs.

    Danny Jacobs beat Shawn Porter (six times), and Porter beat him (once).
     
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