Olympic Gold or A World Title

Almost every singe Olympic gold medallist who later became a pro world champion or even a legend remembers the gold as the greatest moment of his career.

 

i and the world consider him to be a gold medalist

 

Olympic Gold, all the way. You do it because you love it and it's a dream. The pros is a business, it's money. That's all it's about. When you win an Olympic Gold you're part of a tradition going back 2000 years to Ancient Greece, and now in the modern day as part of the greatest sporting event in the world. It's not just you you're representing, it's a whole country, all your people; and when you stand on that podium and see your flag go up and the anthem play, it's everything you've worked for in your life until that moment being fulfilled.

 

World Title. The only olympic gold medalists that anyone gives a **** about are the ones that went on to win world titles. Mayweather took home a bronze Somluck Kamsing took home a gold. Mayweather went on to win world titles and will be remembered. I have to look the other guys name up to know who he was.

If you win world titles without a gold medal you can still be remembered as great but you can not be remembered as great if you win a gold medal without world titles.

 

No, you can't be remembered as great in professional boxing. You will be remembered as a great amateur boxer, and fighting for a Gold medal and winning it it a hell of a lot more impressive than winning a world title. Mzonke ****ing Fana won a world title.

 

Nobody cares about waht happens in the amatuers though so being remembered as a great amatuer isn't that great. You get your hand raised you come back and maybe get a parade thrown but within a year nobody remembers your name unless you go on to win a professional world title. It's like being a first round draft pick because you were a kick ass college quarterback and then flopping in the pros. Sure you were a great college player but you couldn't hang with the big boys in the pros.

I will grant you that some world titles are worthless but if you win a legit title and are truly the champion of a division, that is far greater than any amatuer acheivment

 

Whatever you say, dude. :thumbsup It mattered enough to Rau'shee Warren that he waited for another Olympics for his shot at a Gold Medal rather than turning pro after Athens. Besides, who cares about "nobody remembering your name?" What name besides Oscar De La Hoya, Mike Tyson, and Muhammad Ali do most people know now anyway? The greatness of the amateurs lies in the fact that you fight for something that in its own way doesn't reward you, the medal and being part of a legacy, and representing your country on the greatest sports stage in the world, is your reward. A lot of the time you lost money doing it, but you still do it because you love it.

 

IMO Olympic gold medal is much harder than World title, so it holds more prestige to me but I would pick title for the economical benefits.

 

Whatever brings the most dinero!

 

That's all a professional world title is. Money. Nothing more, the greatest thing about it is how it enhances your bank account.

 

Sometimes a fighters circumstances when he turns pro might influence what moment they feel is more prestigeous in their minds.

 

they wanted another nas thats prolly why

 

Well not everyone can risk staying amateur and not making big money for their families, thats why many turn pro very quickly.

 

Once you have olympic gold there is no limit to what you can become in life. Just look at Kurt Angle. :happy

 

Olympic gold is awesome but Oleg Saitov has two of them and he's probably never gonna make as much in boxing as Brian Minto.