The 10 greatest amateurs since 1970 are?

garfios · Mar 12, 2016

Ovid***ile said: ↑

Teofilo Stevenson beat future heavyweight champion Big John Tate in the amateurs.
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Stevenson beat several talented Americans such as Duane Bobick
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Or Tyrell Biggs
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but he lost to future WBO heavyweight champ Francesco Damiani
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Teofilo won 3 Olympic Gold medals, three amateur world championships, and three Pan American games, but a Soviet boxer Igor Vysotsky beat Stevenson both times they met.
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Besides stopping Stevenson,
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also stopped future heavyweight pro champion Tony Tubbs, although he also lost to future heavyweight pro champion Greg Page. In 1978, at the tale end of his career, an old out of shape Muhammad Ali sparred three top Soviet amateurs back to back as an exhibition match and Vysotsky was the third among them.
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Stevenson probably could have beaten this version of Ali, since Leon Spinks just had, but Stevenson probably would have struggled quite a bit more against George Foreman or Larry Holmes who were the best American heavyweights at this time.
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Vislki was also stopped twice by the second HW in Cuba Angel Milian, so everytime visolki will show on a tournament, Milian was there instead of Stevenson...

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