Olympic Silver/Bronze Medalists That Had Better Pro Career Than Gold Medalist

Both Evander Holyfield and Floyd Mayweather won Bronze medals.

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Damiani

 

Bowe had a better career than Biggs and Rademacher

 

David Tua did better than Savon or Izonritei, I didn't even know that he was in the Olympics.
Chris Byrd did better than Hernandez, too.

 

Antonio Tarver won bronze in 96' after losing to Jirov. I think Tarver had a better pro career with his wins over Jones Jr., Glen Johnson, Reggie Johnson, Montell Griffin, Eric Harding, Clinton Woods etc.

Also, Virgil Hill was a silver medalist in 86'. He is in the hall of fame after a long successful pro career.

 

1952 Olympic Heavyweight Silver Medalist Ingemar Johansson had a much better pro career than the 1952 Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medalist Ed Sanders.

1972 Olympic Light Middleweight Bronze Medalist Alan Minter and 1972 Olympic Bantamweight Silver Medalist Alfonzo Zamora were world champions as pros. The gold medal winners in their divisions didn't turn pro.

1980 Olympic Welterweight Bronze Medalist John "The Beast" Mugabi had a better pro career than the Gold Medalist at Welterweight that year, Andres Aldama, who didn't turn pro.

1992 Olympic Flyweight Bronze Medalist Tim Austin had a much better pro career than the gold medalist in his division who didn't turn pro.

2000 Olympic Light Middleweight Bronze Medalist Jermain Taylor had a better career than the gold medal winner that year at Light Middleweight (Yermakhan Ibrayimov), who didn't turn pro. So did Felix Sturm, who lost to Jermain Taylor in the 2000 Olympic Quarterfinal round and didn't medal.

2000 Olympic Middleweight Bronze Medalist Zsolt Erdei had a much better pro career than the gold medalist that year at middleweight (Jorge Gutierrez), who also didn't turn pro.

2004 Olympic Middleweight Silver Medalist Gennady Golovkin had a better pro career than the gold medalist in his division that year (Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov - always laughed at that name), who didn't turn pro.

2008 Olympic Heavyweight Bronze Medalist Deontay Wilder had a better career than 2008 Olympic Heavyweight Gold Medalist Rakhim Chakhkiev. (Usyk did, too, although he lost in the Quarterfinals that year and didn't medal.)

2016 Olympic Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist Joe Joyce has had a better career than 2016 Olympic Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist Tony Yoka.


There are a lot more.

2000 Olympic Super Heavyweight Sam Peter had a better pro career than Audley Harrison, who won Gold in the division that year, but Sam Peter didn't even medal.

 

Evander

 

Shakur and Robeisy are the first that spring to mind.