Do you think that amateur pedigree means much in the pro game??

I dont think their great pro's because they were great amateurs though. Moreso, I think their great natural boxers hence why they made great pro's and amateurs. Take Roy Jones for example, great amateur, take away his amateur career and learn on the pro's (have 50 fights before stepping up) and he would have been equally as good.

Some were just born to box and is naturally adept to it, just so happens amateurs comes before pro's and it shows there first.

 

Ah cheers, I watched the RJJ robbery on youtube again. I am not sure I can watch it again it's too painful. Years of work and a great performance on the day just to be robbed by home bias and corruption. Sickening.

 

it was a disgrace.


4 years before in los angles olympics a south korean boxer felt he had been robbed and staged a sit down protest in the ring and was even there when they turnbed the lights out,
it made world wide news.
that was brought up in south korea by the koreans themselves as to the roy jones result

despite the corruption amatuer boxing was still better then and produced more rounded fighters for the pro game .

this point system rewards single punches.
its hardly worth throwing a combo as they do not get scored.

hardly surprising when some of the judges seem to be from papua new guniea and andorra and other countries where boxing hardly takes place.

 

You may or may not be right. Without the amatuer fights that Roy jones had he would have been much rustier when he started as a pro. he may have suffered some early losses that he never bounced back from and we may have never heard of him.

in sports like in anything else in life it helps tremendously to get some experience before you step up against the big boys.

 

an Olympic gold medal means more than half of the professional world title belts, and that's not even a joke.

Why wouldn't you be proud of a fantastic amateur career? Because you werent getting paid big bucks? That's a **** reason. The sport is a slightly different animal but it's still the same beast.

 

i think it's a great foundation. but it's not the be all end all in the pros. it means very little on how a professional career pans out. i think a lot of mexican fighters only have rudimentary amateur backgrounds, but a lot have been succesful in the pros.

 

Settle down; that was a pretty terse response to a genuine post.

Of course it matters. When people are fighting for regional belts etc, noting their Olympic achievements is more than fine. World titles etc, it is a different matter entirely, but, as said, it is generally a pretty good guide to skill level. As Audley Harrison proves however, it has no bearing on many other aspects of being a pro eg heart, chin, determination etc.

 

Winning a gold medal open lot's of door especially in this country coming from the Olympics with a medal around your neck and you will have the top promoters on your door step with a juicy contract. Responding to the thread nothing is guarantee on the pro there is an extensive list of fighters with hundreds of fights by the time they turn pro their career is short I have seen a bunch of Cuban fighters with a very good pedigree wasted basically all depend how long you stay amateur.

 

Why dont you shut the **** up, doctor of thug-enomics.

Has that bumped your hate thread enough?

The poster you aimed this thread at has even been on to comment on exactly what you have done atsch

I await your threads on 'punches not slaps', 'Is the 0 that important', 'should you let your dad be your trainer' and various other topics that have nothing to do with the welsh wizard.

 

Yawn, not a fan boy of calzaghe, you will note I am in the class of prime RJJ beats him, Mediocre Resume but great fighter. Not greatest of the last 25 years by any means.
I dont like the hate for european boxers being bums because americans have not heard of them.
I dont subscribe to the idiots who tell me that Joe Calzaghe and Fwank Warren split up because Warren wanted Pavlik (less money) not Jones (more money) so on these points you will see me stick my nose into a post.
I think they are more common sense than fan boy-ish.

When I do start stating he is the best fighter ever, you have my permission to load up the shot gun and put me out of my misery.