Amateur/olympic boxing stars who failed hard in the pros?

all those guys had extensive careers where they fought everybody and learned on the job and it is usually only latinos that do that cause they are allowed to go pro very young and they need money


its not out of choice most of the time


ps duran was an amateur boxer

 

Yes

Got beat on points by the white Tyson.

 

as an example lets take a look at the great HWS form recent times

Ali- Gold
Frazier- gold
Foreman- Gold
Lewis- Gold and bronze
Holyfield- bronze
Bowe- silver
golota-bronze
Tyson- excellent am career , no olymics tho
Vitali- qualified for games
Vlad- gold
haye- top am career
povetkin-gold
mercer-gold

 

If you look at that he only had 6 fights, with the one loss being a split decision. He obviously never had much of a desire to do anything in the pro game, I wouldn't exactly call that a failure.

Look at every top pro and 99 times out of 100 they had an excellent amateur career. People sound like idiots with the talk that the pros and amateurs are completely different. They're both boxing, with top amateurs usually fighting better comp than top pros are.
What's harder to win, a pro title or an olympic gold? Pretty obvious.

 

Howard Davis Jr

Won the '76 Val Barker Trophy, ahead of Leonard & the Spinks. Fantastic amatuer, dissapointing pro

 

Fraudley "Gay Farce" Embarrison

 

Holyfield got cheated in the Olympics.

 

Mayweather - Todorov is widely accepted as a robbery.

 

Jerry Page won gold in '84, but the pros after a disappointing 11-4 record.

Come to think of it.. Henry Tillman, also gold '84 (as was Biggs) didnt do so well either.
Might have something to do with the fact that the '84 Olympics were weak due to the
boycott by the eastern block countries and Cuba.

 

Mark Breland maybe? Although he was still a very good pro, people were anticipating another Sugar Ray.....

 

Atilla Levin
Paea Wolfgramm, or however u spell it...
Lawrence Cley Bey
Ricardo Williams
Rocky Juarez

 

Park-Si Hun

 

frankie gomez

ricardo williams

 

Not sure if Bojado was an amateur star but what a ****ing let down man...

 

no its not, go watch the fight. was a close fight that could have gone either way.