Bobick: I dont want to make thousands, I want to make millions said Duane Bobick in July, 1972. He had just forced a cut stoppage over the second best heavyweight in the country, the air force champion Nick Wells, a destructive one punch hitter who would finish his amateur career with over seventy first round knockouts, with Larry Holmes twice victim to the devastating southpaw. Bobick had forced his way into the final box-off to represent the United States at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, and was chewing at the bit to get his chance to achieve his dream of gold. Wells, still the number two, was pencilled in to box Bobick again two weeks later in the final, but the cut, a recurring injury, would stop him competing. Bobick was clearly Wells superior, having knocked him out in the 72 National Golden Gloves final. While this battle had been back and forth, Wells had started to tire and Bobick was known for being able to fight a hard three rounds. The replacement for Wells was a man who would become renowned for fighting a hard fifteen rounds, and as a boxer one that would give Bobick a distinctly different look to his other nearest rival. Nick Wells: "WHAT A JOKE WITH Bobick, he didn't knock me out he knocked me down with a touch because I was off balance. Larry H. had it right, they wanted him there, they were so afraid I was going to hurt him they ( Stan Hamilton the ref was given the order to stop it if he could it was a joke of a judgement call of fixed fight), Holmes knew just as I he was going, I feel if I had knocked him out cold they would have given him the fight on some kind of a made up rule, I was just screwed"
