Would the Soviet sports machine have taken over boxing had they allowed their Boxers to turn pro?

No. But they'd have been the 2nd most successful country.

If the Soviet Union continued existing post 1991 its combined member states would have made it the most successful boxing nation at some point around the turn of the century.

 

Soviet boxers undoubtedly had the raw potential to reshape pro boxing. Technically brilliant fighters with a steel like mindset, barring the odd vodka or two.. Their amateur dominance showed they could produce assembly line talent.. & in a less biased system they might’ve come closer to domination.. but the American market’s grip.. promoters, networks, judges favoring homegrown or more marketable western stars would’ve been a massive hurdle for them.. Recent examples of questionable scoring underline this.

 

You see other striking sports that play a lot with distance bouncing; karate and taekwondo. Or at least you used to, I don't know what modern TKD looks like.

 

I think they would have turned up some very good boxers and maybe some champions but remember Leonard,Hagler, Duran, Arguello, Benitez and Hearns were around and I don't care if they were from Mars they didn't have that level of talent.