Olympic Gold Medalists who had terrible professional careers?

David Reid

 

I suspect Anthony Joshua will get on this list, dude needed hometown decisions to get his medal.

 

Andrew Maynard

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Winning an European title and challenging for world title is not a pathetic professional career

 

he was beaten by an old whitnaker and has lost a majority of the big fights in his career.

 

Never recognised this before, way to get thrown in at the deep end!

 

You saw those fights right? The guy was so awful he has destroyed any chance of getting boxing on the BBC in the future, struggled with undersized part timers in the dullest fights imaginable, lost to very average British opponents, won the European title with a lucky punch in the last round, when he'd done nothing to earn the shot, and threw about 10 punches in 3 rounds in that world title fight.

I suppose you could make an argument De La Hoya had a slightly underperforming career, considering he was going to be this generations Sugar Ray according to the hype in his early years, but that's a long way from terrible.

 

Victory is a victory. It doesnt matter if its punch in the last round or in the first.
Bottom line is that winning European title and earning over milion dollars is not pathetic career

 

Audley probably earned well over 2.5 million from his professional career, was European champion and fought for a world title.

Picking Rademacher is harsh, he had to fight quality straight away.

You don't see first 3 opponents having 92 wins and 14 loses.

 

povetkin-gold medalist at olympics, paper champion at pro...keep hiding from the klits chump...

 

Howard Davis

 

Fluke is fluke. I beleive he was injured during the fight which goes someway to explaining his shitty performance, but still he'd lost just about every round to Micheal Sprott. They were fighting for a vacant title, so it's not like he dethroned some long standing and respected champion to win it, between that fight and his prvious loss all he'd done was win prizefighter, a sprint tournamant with alot of novices in it, so he'd done next to nothing to earn the shot, and he never defended the title. So being a "former European champion" in his case is worth about as little as possible. He entered possibly the most pathetic performance ever seen in a world title fight straight afterwards. As for money, he got a fat contract with the BBC staright out of the Olympics before they knew how bad he was, then benefitted from the David Haye cash in express. Guys make what he did in his career sitting on the bench for one season for Everton and I doubt anyone would consider their premier league careers succesful.