Best Amateur Ever !

Both great in my eyes:thumbsup

 

as far as i know his career ended when he reached the age of 37 and due to rules established by the Olympic Comission could not fight on. He was also knocked out by Samuel Peter. Nevertheless, he was an IMPRESSIVE fighter, just go on to youtube and watch kim knock out young david tua, shannon briggs, Ibragimov, Krasniqui, Lamon Brewster, Williamson, damn! Just can't understand why in the name of so called Cuban Revolution he refused to go pro, he was offered 10 million dollars to fight Tyson at his peak, just as his fellow compatriote Teofilio Stevenson had been offered lots of money to fight Ali years back.

 

I rate him as the third greatest amateur after Stevenson and Laszlo Papp.

 

What do people think about Kindelan though? He's one of my favourite fighters - amateur wise.

 

Very good, not up there with Stevenson,Papp and Savon tho

 

i respect the fact that a cuban would be the best amateur ever as they have the best amateur fighters in the world.
shame they dont fight pro though to see how good they really are.
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i used to like him until he took a pay cheque off warren to lose to khan after the olympics.

 

Is Rigondeaux going to turn pro?

 

felix savon is defiinitely one of them...but think if others never turned pro...i mean how many title would pbf or SRL or meldrick have


tefilio stephenson is an atg
sugar ray leonard was a phenom
yuriorkis gamboa

 

Yep damn shame that fighters have to defect from that country in order to turn professional. Makes a lot of sense:fire

 

I recommend using this site for detailed amateur records (not only of Cubans, but many others greats like Ali, Papp etc).

http://www.geocities.com/pedrinet/index.html

 

good stuff thanks