The diversity of 1990's heavyweight boxing

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  1. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Audley Harrison won Olympic gold, David Price and Glazkov won Bronze etc etc.
     
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  2. Mendoza

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    Bit,

    The Olympic judging has been rally bad lately, but usually the gold or silver medal winners at the Olympics combined have about a 50% change to win a world title.

    A few examples

    Ali
    Frazier
    Foreman
    Lewis
    Mercer
    Klitschko
    Povetkin
    Joshua


    All gold and most of whom were world champions

    We cant add the Cubans or Russians, as they were born under a communist flag and not allowed to turn professional until recently.

    Bowe
    Ibragimov

    Silver medal winners
     
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    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Sorry, I thought it was obvious I wasn't really being entirely serious ITT.

    It doesn't always work out, but obviously olympians have more potential than most, especially younger ones, they are obviously good, they just don't always adapt to the pro game. Though I'm not sure it's worth getting hyped by quater finalists turning pro (unless there was dodgy judging etc)
     
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