Best amateur boxers..

Lee Sinner?

 

Probably a lesser known one and not by any means an Olympic star or that, but Stephen 'Block' Reynolds was a good Irish amateur, was ranked higher than David Haye at one point & think he won 4 or 5 national titles etc.

Lou Duva tried to turn him pro when he was at his amateur peak but he never did, now he's 39 and giving it a go.

Not saying he would have took the world by storm as I don't think he would have, but he was talented & could have been in a good few domestic dust ups.

 

How is he getting on?

 

Muhammad Abdullaev won Olympic Gold beat Cotto in the amateurs and World championships gold.

Went 21-4 which isn't bad but didn't have the success at world level like he did in the amateurs.

Also lost to Cotto in a pro fight.

 

I see fastboxer has a new alt

 

Dundee's Dick McTaggart never turned pro and he's one of the best ams ever.

McTaggart won 610 of his 634 amateur fights. He was 5 times ABA champ (3 at lightweight and 2 at light welter) He was the first British boxer to compete in three Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1964). In 1956, McTaggart won the gold medal for the lightweight division in the Olympic Games at Melbourne. He was also awarded the Val Barker Trophy for the most stylish boxer at the games and in 1960, he won an Olympic bronze medal in Rome.

Olympic gold medal, lightweight, 1956
Olympic bronze medal, lightweight, 1960
British Commonwealth champion, 1958
British Empire silver medal, 1963
European champion, 1961

The only major event he never won was the world amateur championship, only because the tournament wasn't born until 1974.

Dick was the old guy handing the medals to the Scots gold medal winners at the games yesterday.

I read that he didn't turn pro because he wasn't dedicated enough, he knew the work the pro's had to do was much harder. He jokingly said he liked his fish and chips too much. There's a doc on McTaggart on youtube http://youtu.be/hWSqyzqMGPI

 

Howard Davies Jr the Val Barker best boxer 1976 Olympics off that all star USA team.Edged Pryor to the Olympic spot,who had beaten Hearns!Just couldn't deliver as a pro.

Jim Watt handed him his first pro defeat WBC lightweight title.

 

F*ck off Fast Boxer, you idiot.

 

Paul griffin and Michael carruth two of the best ever to put on the green vestGriffin a 91 European gold medalist and 92 Olympian was destined for greatness the slickest south paw you ever seen never fulfilled his potential heard he liked to party 2 much never took the pro game serious he got knocked out in the first round by kid Galahad in his last fight


Carruth a 88 and 92 Olympian winning gold in Barcelona beating the Cuban Hernandez in the final never done anything as a pro either these days he looks after drimnagh abc here in dublin

 

3-0 with 2 stoppage wins but hasn't fought since last year.