1996 U.S Olympic Boxing team

IT is also a shame that the 80 team never participated, it had several great fighters on it.

 

That's politics for you. Politicians beating their chests stopped us from seeing two really great teams testing their stuff (the 1980 US team not going, and the 1984 team competing in a boycott Olympics missing some of the major powers in amateur boxing). For my money, the '76, '84, and '88 teams were the best. And the 1988 team had to deal with all the BS that got put out in Seoul.

 

Great team...Weird to see some of them reaching the end of their careers.

 

Are you ****ing kidding me?
Go do some research and come back, you stupid ****atschatschatschatsch

 

The '84 team would literally smash the '96 team to pieces!
You are one stupid tool

 

Great team...and Cauthen is a pretty good fighter too, he just fights way out of his weight class, he should be at 140.

 

NO WAY!!! 1984!!!

106: Paul Gonzales, Los Angeles, Calif. (1st)
112: Steve McCrory, Detroit, Mich. (1st)
119: Robert Shannon, Edmonds, Wash.
125: Meldrick Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa. (1st)
132: Pernell Whitaker, Norfolk, Va. (1st)
139: Jerry Page, Columbus, Ohio (1st)
147: Mark Breland, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1st)
156: Frank Tate, Detroit, Mich. (1st)
165: Virgil Hill, Williston, N.D. (2nd)
178:

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, Atlanta, Ga. (3rd)
201: Henry Tillman, Los Angeles, Calif. (1st)
+201: Tyrell Biggs, Philadelphia, Pa. (1st)

THAT was the best olympic team ever.

 

This team was a little before my time. So I can't assess it as well an older fan could. But I will say that this team had some outstanding talent. Clearly Taylor and Biggs were the stars of this squad. This team was loaded, I mean Whitaker was on this team and he wasn't even the most talented fighter on the squad. Holyfield and Hill are of course outstanding, and Tillman was prety good himself. I'm probably overlooking some talent on this team, but once again, they're before my time.

 

That's crazy. And Holyfield probably would've won gold had he not been disqualified.

 

Oh yeah, Tyson was an alternate for Tillman, too.

 

Do you see the places they placed in?

That team was beyond amazing.

 

Didn't the Cubans boycott the 84 olympics?

 

Then there is the 1976 team...

106: Louis Curtis, Washington, D.C.
112: Leo Randolph, Tacoma, Wash. (1st)
119: Charles Mooney, Army (2nd)
125: Davey Lee Armstrong, Puyallup, Wash.
132: Howard Davis Jr., Glen Cove, N.Y. (1st)
139: Ray Leonard, Palmer Park, Md. (1st)
147: Clinton Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
156: Charles Walker Jr., Mesa, Ariz.
165: Michael Spinks, St. Louis, Mo. (1st)
178: Leon Spinks, St. Louis, Mo. (1st)
+178: Johnny Tate, Knoxville, Tenn. (3rd

 

Would it have mattered with that lineup....

 

Well the Cubans are known to put grown ass men in there, while the U.S sends teenagers, so you never know. Never the less, that squad was loaded.