Successfull boxers without an amature pedigree

Was that jail boxing or proper amateur fights?

 

Joey Giardello

 

Foreman was Olympic Heavyweight Champion, g

 

:thumbsup

 

That he was but his amateur career was surprisingly short, his amateur record was 22-4


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He was only 19 when he won the gold. His first amateur fight was January 1967 by 1968 he spars Sonny Liston and he wins the 1968 gold medal. Turns pro in 1969, by 1970 KOs Chuvalo and by 1973 linear champion with 38 wins and 36 by KO.


That is just insane to go from first fight to gold medalist and hanging with linear champions in sparring in less than 2 years. Shows what a freak of nature he was.

 

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/George_Foreman


Amateur Accomplishments

* Won his first amateur fight on January 26, 1967 by a first-round knockout in the Parks Diamond Belt Tournament.
* Won the San Francisco Examiner's Golden Gloves Tournament in the Junior Division in February 1967.
* February 1967: Knocked out Thomas Cook to win the Las Vegas Golden Gloves in the Senior Division.
* February 1968: Knocked out L.C. Brown to win the San Francisco Examiner's Senior Title in San Francisco.
* March 1968: Won the National AAU Heavyweight title in Toledo, Ohio vs. Henry Crump of Philadelphia, PA in the final.
* July 1968: Sparred 5 rounds on two different occasions with former World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston.
* September 21, 1968: Won his second decision over Otis Evans to make the U.S. boxing team for the Mexico City Olympic Games.
* Foreman had a 16-4 amateur boxing record going into the Olympics. He knocked out Russia's Ionas Chepulis to win the Olympic Games Heavyweight Gold Medal. He was trained for the Olympic Games by Robert (Pappy) Gault.
* Amateur Record: 22-4

Olympic Results

* Defeated Lucjan Trela (Poland) 4-1
* Defeated Ion Alexe (Romania) TKO 3
* Defeated Giorgio Bambini (Italy) KO 2
* Defeated Ionas Chepulis (Soviet Union) TKO 2

 

I suppose many of those Mexcians dont have much amateur pedigree as they turn pro so young.

 

Manny had over 60 fights as an amature.

 

60-4 was his amateur record.
He was never a part of the national team IMO tho.

 

Kendall Holt ?

Can anyone confirm this ?

 

Hagler and Duran. the funny thing is among the fab 4, if you count amature and professional fights, Hearns has the most combined fights of the 4.. I looked it up once and it was interesting to see. Hearns was 155-8 as an amateur. 61-5-1 as a professional, which overtakes Duran over 100 pro fights since I do not think Duran had that many amature fights, and I am not sure what Hagler had. Leonard had I think about 150 amature fights. Not that the statistic means anything who had the total most fights. Then you have other guys outside the fab 4 like Curry who I think had close to 300 amature fights.

 

Felix Savon.

 

martin rogan

 

james toney. for this very reason i think he's more talented than roy jones. people always roll their eyes when i say this. jones is way more gifted athlectically, but toney was more gifted in boxing. considering he didn't have many amateur fights he really was born to be a fighter and is so comfortable in there.

 

Larry Holmes went to the Olmpic trials but was beaten by Duane Bobbic correct me if i'm wrong so yes he did a amatuer back ground.