greatest amatuer ever...

Oleg Saitov
1992 jr world light welterweight champion
1996 olympic welterweight champion
1997 world welterweight champion
1998 european welterweight champion
2000 olympic welterweight champion
2000 val barker cup
2004 european welterweight champion
2004 olympic weltweight bronze medalist

 

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
2000 olympic bantamweight champion
2001 world bantamweight champion
2001 goodwill bantamweight champion
2002 world cup bantamweight champion
2003 pan-american bantamweight champion
2004 olympic bantamweight champion
2005 world bantamweight champion
2006 world cup bantamweight champion
2006 central american & caribbean bantamweight champion

 

He was arrested in Rio and shipped back to Cuba. His career, pro or otherwise, is over. I thought he was a lock for a third gold next year. Now that is never going to happen.

 

Jerzy Kulej
1963 european light welterweight champion
1964 olympic light welterweight champion
1965 european light welterweight champion
1968 olympic light welterweight champion

 

Harry Mallin
1919 British ABA middleweight champion
1920 British ABA middleweight champion
1920 Olympic middleweight champion
1921 British ABA middleweight champion
1922 British ABA middleweight champion
1923 British ABA middleweight champion
1924 Olympic middleweight champion

 

What is with Lennox Lewis he said in an interwiev of the german newsmagazin
"Der Spiegel" that he had something like 400 fights as an amateur.
That`s truly impressive.
I also read on wikipedia that tyson had like 200 amateur fights.
I usually knew from him that he had 24 fights is there something like a official and a unofficial amateur list are there on boxrec no amateur fight lists. Perhaps someone of you box scientists can help me out because I think amateur fighting is full of myths and untrue storys.

 

There is your problem

 

Holy ****!What a waste...

 

I don't think savon can really be mentioned as sobis beat him twice and withdrew from the cuban team to let savon get his final medal so it is abit much to call him the best ever.

 

I did quite well in the amateurs.

2 and a half rounds of sparring. Retired unbeaten.

 

Igor Vysotsky.

 

Ray Leonard
Leon Spinks
Clint Jackson
Bernard Taylor
Mark Breland
Tony Tubbs
Greg Page
Howard Davis Jr.

 

As I posted previously, Mario Kindelan IMO was the best amateur boxer,he dominated his weight class like no other even Guillermo

 

It's pathetic when people pm fellow posters to draw attention to threads that no one gave a damn about in the first place. These self-absorbed, head-up-their-ass people kill me.