The 1980 US Amateur Boxing Team accident

didn't know about it

 

tony tucker did not get on that plane for some reason

 

Very sad story. Just to think how good some of these guys could have been.:-(

 

Damn, I got goose bumps reading this.

RIP everybody in that plane.

 

Never heard of that

 

POS Russian Communist planes!

 

Bobby Czyz was suppose to be on that plane but got in a Car accident the week before and had to cancel.

 

According to this newspaper story from the time there were four especially good prospects in that team:

Baltimore Afro-American, 1980.

 

Yeah, because had they been bad, it'd have been just fine.

 

Marvis Frazier and Bobby Czyz both missed that trip...Lemuel Steeples was on the plane, though...potential great fighter...Kelvin Anderson from my city of hartford was on that plane, too...there is a street and community center named after him here...

 

Will someone please post a decent link to the story...or would I be better off reading this on wiki?

R.I.P. all those who died in this tragic event.

I knew nothing of it..

 

not much to tell really...1980...a US team of amateur boxers was heading to Poland for a tournament..plane went down...unless u follow amateur boxing back then REALLY closely you wont recognize any of the names I am sure...

 

Just google it.

By the way, who's that girl with that fine ass ass in your avatar?

 

All the names should be included on the tragic boxing stories thread - go to search
It is likely in the archives by now and not an active thread.

Some of the names - PAUL PALOMINO, brother of welterweight champion
Carlos Palomino. One of the top boxers was LEMUEL STEEPLES, then there was the young one from Washington State CHUCK ROBINSON. and the many others.

The whole affair is a double tragedy, in that the trip to Poland where the plane crashed and exploded leaving the hopes, wishes and dreams in a pile of ashes turned out to be a
trip that wasn't necessary as the USA boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Without a doubt, this is one of the greatest tragedies in boxing history.
Just to think, just two years before the tragedy Chuck Robinson was engaged in a boxing tournament in Nanaimo, BC, Canada with the complete name being
BATHTUB CAPITAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST GOLDEN GLOVES.

After 1978, there were follow-up tournaments, including one in 1985 in which I
was an official for some of the bouts, but the glory of 1978 was missing, and
the past performance of boxer CHUCK ROBINSON was never mentioned.

As a flashback to 1978, Robinson defeated two BC boxers from Richmond and the
North West Eagles Boxing Club of North Vancouver