Boxing Pro's with Great Amatuer Records.

Michael Dokes had an 147-7 record, pretty impressive when you consider he did all of it before 18.

 

I heard Calzage was undefeated

 

I just looked it up 110-10 Joe Calzage

 

He did lose as an amateur, I think there might be film of it on YT, I've seen it. Having said that he was a very good amateur.

 

Billy Soose- 170-6

A monster who scored mostly knockouts and could boast a win over Charley Burley.

 

Antonio Tarver 158-8

(1993 and 1995 United States amateur light heavyweight champion.
1994 National Golden Gloves light heavyweight champion
1995 Pan American Games Light heavyweight champion in Mar del Plata, Argentina
1995 World Amateur Light heavyweight champion in Berlin, Germany
1995 World Amateur Championships Challenge Light heavyweight champion in Atlanta, United States
1996 US Olympic Trials Light heavyweight champion
Won the Light Heavyweight Bronze Medal for the United States at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta)

Paul Spadafora: 75-5

Andre Ward 114-5

(1999 United States National Junior Olympics (15-16 age category) Welterweight Champion
2001 United States Amateur Middleweight Champion
2001 U.S. Challenge Middleweight Gold Medalist
2002 United States National Junior Olympics (17-18 age category) Light Heavyweight Champion
2003 Titan Games Middleweight Champion
2003 United States Amateur Light Heavyweight Champion
2003 U.S. Challenge Light Heavyweight Gold Medalist
2004 Titan Games Light Heavyweight Champion
2004 Light Heavyweight Gold Medalist for the United States at the Olympics in Athens, Greece)

 

Rigondeaux--390ish with 12 loses.
(Olympic Gold Medal 2000, 2004
seven-time (2000-06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight
two-time amateur world champion)

Odlanier Solis--347-12
(1998 Gold medalist at the Junior World Amateur Boxing Championships
1999 Panamerican Games Champion
2001 Gold medalist at heavyweight at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland
2003 Gold medalist at heavyweight at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand
2004 Gold medalist at heavyweight at the Olympics in Athens
2005 Gold medalist at Super heavyweight at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, People's Republic of China
Six time Cuban National Champion (1999-2004))

 

Yea looks like 110-10 but I think he won his last 70+ fights as an amateur

 

Antonio Tarver is one of the best amateur fighters ever.

What a monster. I remember working with him and being blown away that a young American could be THAT good.

 

Breland has to be up there but I don't know the numbers.

I think Clint Jackson's was also among the more impressive of his time.

And not sure if it's true, but I remember reading that Hector Camacho was 99-1.

 

Who would you say is the best American amateur of all time? I took quite a bit of **** in that other thread for mentioning how good of an am Tarver was.

 

I think you have to go with Mark Breland, who was just a phenom, as best American amateur ever.

But Tarver is close. Is there an accolade beyond Olympic gold he DIDN'T earn. He was the team favorite even then(And he beat Jirov, regardless of what the judges thought).

Antonio was one of those rare amateurs that you were actually scared of. Nobody wanted to fight him.

Not even Mike Tyson had that kind of reputation as an amateur. Roy Jones was around my time, and even he didn't, though we all knew he was stellar.

 

Great answer. I remember a European boxing mag had Tarver pfp before his first fight with Harding because of am credentials.

Since Breland hasn't been added yet:
110-1
1980 won the Novice New York Daily News Golden Gloves Championship at 139 lb.
1981 to 1984 won four consecutive Open New York Daily News Golden Gloves Championships at 147 lb.
His record in the New York Golden Gloves was 21-0 with 19 knockouts, 14 in the first round.
1981 Intercity Golden Gloves 147 lb. Champion. Breland scored a first-round knockout of Efrain Bennett in the final.
Lost to Darryl Anthony by a 3-2 decision at the 1981 United States Amateur Championships in the welterweight division. This was Breland's only loss as an amateur. He avenged the loss in his eleventh professional fight, winning by a third-round knockout.
1982 United States Amateur Welterweight Champion
1982 World Amateur Welterweight Champion in Munich, West Germany.
1983 United States Amateur Welterweight Champion.
1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Welterweight Champion in Fort Worth, Texas.
Welterweight Gold Medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

 

That's possibly the craziest amateur CV an American has ever compiled. That is literally nuts.

I hold it above many Cuban accomplishments, as Mark was a kid, and had the pro game to take him away. He wasn't dominant into his 30's, he was dominant as a young man.