Greatest Olympic Class?

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  1. Bellewbomber

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    1996 had Mayweather.. Wladimir Klitschko and Vassiliy Jirov/Antonio Tarver etc.
     
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    [yt]k1PvHTm62FA&start=390[/yt]
     
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  3. Bellewbomber

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    The one with Cotto?
     
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    Barxers don't make great postmen etc.
     
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  5. IntentionalButt

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    '76 stands out.

    You had Chan-Hee Park and
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    at light flyweight (absent the presence of Hernández, Park could have taken gold but alas met him and was eliminated before the medal stage)

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    at lightweight.

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    at 63.5kg.

    Mike McCallum at welter, though he didn't medal.

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    at middle. (and Fully Obel)

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    at light heavy.

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    at heavy.


    That is hard to beat.
     
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    WOW! That's some quality right there!
     
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  7. GencoAbbandando

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    That list from 76 is something else.
     
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  8. IntentionalButt

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    '68


    Thin on notables.

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    (great Venezuelan, never turned pro)

    Mate Parlov (though he was eliminated in the quarterfinals before he could obtain a medal, he did return to win gold in '72, and went on to become WBC light heavyweight champ)

    ...and
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    himself, although his field at HW that year was pretty weak. I mean, it did have Rudi Lubbers (eliminated in the quarters) :yep


    Not a speck on '76.
     
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  9. rossco666

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    :deal was about to put that up. Didn't Davis Jr win the Val Barker in those games?
     
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  10. IntentionalButt

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    That he did.

    He also wasn't a terrible pro, though he was a "letdown" in the sense that he didn't ever win a title. He did put in a couple of respectable attempts, with no shame in dropping competitive decisions to Watt or Chapo.

    Even past his prime he drew with a young unbeaten Meldrick Taylor and didn't embarrass himself against prime Camacho. He fought on way too long considering his decline begun around 30 and his not superb chin.
     
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  11. rossco666

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    Spot on mate. He was meant to be the biggest star of all them all but lack of heart, chin and motivation made him a 'letdown' as you said. Watt was a very clever fighter but athletically shabby as hell. How the hell did a guy with the ability of Jr get beat by Watt, I will never know. Credit to Watt though. He was crafty, tough and dirty and exposed HDJ's flaws. The pro game aint no joke you gotta have more than just speed and athletic ability.
     
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  12. Bellewbomber

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    A lot of the early games were not really "world championships".. I mean you had Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali but you still had the race barrier in some of those games.

    Not to mention it wasn't really the worlds until the worlds came.. Most of the great fighters won double golds to prove it wasn't a fluke etc.

    Take Joe Frazier.. a David Tua type.. yet he won gold at the Olympics like Evander Holyfield almost did.

    But in the modern SHW era I doubt he would have.


    But in the lower weights.. it was rare for a lesser "boxer" to win gold etc.
     
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  13. Bellewbomber

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    But a thing about Howard Davis what's his face..

    Like I mentioned in previous posts..


    A lot of those lower weights and weights in between are so diluted.


    In some cases someone like SRL can't help but just win all his fights.


    And you don't have a super heavyweight and an ultra heavyweight division or a super ultra heavyweight division.


    Yet you got all the way down to something called the minimum weight in the lower divisions.


    So fighters like Pernell Whitaker was fighting in an open division for the "little guys".


    But Howard what's face was fighting in a junior junior lightweight division.. when TBH they are the same size.


    Then you got all these in between weights for guys who are more or less the same size.


    But as you move up the weights it don't really matter because middleweight/light heavyweights/cruiserweights/heavyweights are all literally different sizes.. it makes a difference.
     
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  14. Bellewbomber

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    So he's like the Tyrell Biggs of the lower weights.
     
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  15. Bellewbomber

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    Or the Vassiliy Jirov of the 1976 Olympics.

    Val Barker is given not earned.
     
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