seen a lot of boxers who are legends in the amateurs but are normal in pro. Are there any examples of the opposite?
Rocky Marciano was 8-4 as an amateur. Stephen Fulton 75-15 Neither are super terrible but definitely not the best. There aren't many examples of this.
75-15 as an amateur is an extremely successful amateur career, that is by no means bad I'm pretty sure Sam Peter was only like 15-20 and 5 and it was a shock he made it to the Olympics.
We cannot call him an ATG but Johnny Nelson went from an amateur record of 3-10 to then become a world champion with 13 straight defences which is quite a turnaround.
Rocky is probably the right answer. Out of all the World Heavyweight Champions who are considered all-time greats, those that had amateur careers were all likely more successful than Rocky was as an amateur.
Holmes didn’t have a stellar amateur career. Think he was 19-3, not bad, but not what you would expect from someone as good as him. Though not an atg, Randall Cobb was an 0-2 amateur and just hopped right into the pros.
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...xer-who-had-a-very-bad-amateur-career.688967/ Vice versa: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ho-had-a-very-bad-professional-career.688968/
