Ukraine's Olympic Boxing team in 2012 will go down as the best National team EVER

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  1. Champagne Popping

    Champagne Popping The TRUTH is the TRUTH banned Full Member

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    Vasyl Lomachenko
    Oleksandr Usyk
    Oleksandr Gvozdyk
    Ievgen Khytrov
    Denys Berinchyk
    Taras Shelestyuk
    Pavel Ischenko


    Unbelievable team..
     
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  2. Todd498

    Todd498 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Those are some future champs right there.
     
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  3. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You can add the 76 USA, 80 CUBA, 84 USA, 88 USA, 92 CUBA, 96 CUBA, 04 CUBA, 16 UZBEKISTAN, etc...
     
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  4. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    Berinchyk is basically a Lomachenko copy but just not as polished.
    And what happened to Ischenko? Only fought once this year. 10 months without a fight.
     
  5. Robney

    Robney ᴻᴼ ᴸᴼᴻᴳᴲᴿ ᴲ۷ᴵᴸ Full Member

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    Has he signed with Haymon?
     
  6. Badbot

    Badbot You can just do things. Full Member

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    I dont´t know anything. Not bothered to google either.
    A while back someone made a thread about these guys and their potential, i was shocked to see how inactive he is.
    But he is youngest of the bunch.
     
  7. Gannicus

    Gannicus 2014 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    I think the Ukrainian 2012 team are true contenders. The USA Olympic team of 1984 are probably the greatest. 9 Gold Medalists including Breland, Whitaker and Taylor. 1 silver by HOF'er Virgil Hill and 1 Bronze by one of the best ever in pros, Holyfield. They medalled everywhere other than Bantamweight.
     
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  8. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Only Robert Shannon didn't medal, but Cuba and the URSS weren't in those games, i was planning making a thread about it but i lost my notes, still i think that Breland, Whitaker and Taylor would have won the gold.
     
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  9. Gannicus

    Gannicus 2014 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    oh yeah...well, they can't be the greatest then lol.
     
  10. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The problem was that Page, Tate, Tillman, McCrory and Biggs were considered to have gift decisions trough the tournament, those are 5/9 of the gold medalists.
     
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  11. Gannicus

    Gannicus 2014 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    I will never listen to Americans hype up their own again. God damn it.
     
  12. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The team was solid tho and archived a lot of pro success.
    The 76 USA team maybe was stronger with the members winning most of their fights by KO and archieved both pro and olympic success.
     
  13. gmurphy

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    Who were these these bums? No doubt the robbed some god like Cuban of he's rightful gold
     
  14. IronMaster

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    It was an incredible team:

    Usyk = One of the greatest ever fighters, Undisputed at heavyweight and cruiserweight
    Lomachenko = modern day pro great, greatest ever amateur, first ballot hall of famer, 3 weight world champ
    Gvozdyk - excellent world champ, who ended Stevensons 6 year run as champ brutally.
    Berinchyk - world champion, just schooled Navarette last night.

    [I think Khytrov and Shelestyuk (still undefeated) would have done more as well with better backing]