Si-Hun Park

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 31 May 2005, 10:39

What happened to that guy after the 88 Olympics? Did he ever go pro or did he stay amatuer?

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 31 May 2005, 11:06

He's coach for the South Korean team

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 31 May 2005, 14:21

Did he still box after the Roy Jones robbery though?

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 31 May 2005, 19:13

Don't think so. At least he didn't have to with all the money he won!

Chopping Right · Post by **Chopping Right** » 01 Jun 2005, 02:52

locoxelbox wrote:Don't think so. At least he didn't have to with all the money he won!

You can't say that!

Didn't Ray Mercer KO a Korean to win his gold medal? Presumably that could have gone the same way as the Jones fight otherwise. Thinking about it further though was that the event where a Korean sat in the ring and refused to leave because he'd lost a decision, and he was still there when they turned the lights off? In which case how come he lost?

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 01 Jun 2005, 07:54

Mercer did beat a Korean in the final, Balk Hyan-Man.

A certain Andrzej Golota won Bronze that year.

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 01 Jun 2005, 10:22

Altogther 3 American boxers were gold medalists then.

Seoul 1988 Boxing 51 - 54kg (bantamweight) Men MCKINNEY, Kennedy
Seoul 1988 Boxing 75 - 81kg (light-heavyweight) Men MAYNARD, Andrew Lester
Seoul 1988 Boxing 81 - 91kg (heavyweight) Men MERCER, Raymond A.

Did they win on knockouts to get them?

Did Park really win alot of money after that? Everytime I try to find more about this Park all the sites just memtion his fight with Jones.

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 01 Jun 2005, 10:39

Chopping Right wrote:Didn't Ray Mercer KO a Korean to win his gold medal? Presumably that could have gone the same way as the Jones fight otherwise. Thinking about it further though was that the event where a Korean sat in the ring and refused to leave because he'd lost a decision, and he was still there when they turned the lights off? In which case how come he lost?

That was Jung-Il Byun who later became pro world champ. He lost to Bulgarian Alexander Hristov on a 4-1 decision and was upset with the scoring. It ws the fight where korean officials stormed the ring and attacked the referee who I think had deducted a point for Byun.

Chopping Right · Post by **Chopping Right** » 01 Jun 2005, 11:40

locoxelbox wrote:That was Jung-Il Byun who later became pro world champ.

Interesting pro career he had, only 10-2 (4KO) but managed to defend/fight for the WBC bantamweight title 4 times!

Chopping Right · Post by **Chopping Right** » 01 Jun 2005, 11:51

The results for Seoul 1988 make interesting reading as the host country did remarkably well and finished second in the medals table. Haven't seen them do so well since then....

I notice some of the Soviet bloc were there and some weren't, the Cubans certainly weren't.

Results courtesy of http://www.eaba.org/oly_history.html#

48 kg
1. Ivailo Marinov (BUL)
2. Michael Carbajal (USA)
3. Robert Isaszegi (HUN)
3. Leopoldo Serantes (PHI)

51 kg
1. Kim Kwang Sun (KOR)
2. Andreas Tews (GDR)
3. Skryabin Timofey (URS)
3. Mario Gonzalez (MEX)

54 kg
1. Kennedy McKinney (USA)
2. Alexander Christov (BUL)
3. Jorge Julio Rocha (COL)
3. Phajol Moolsan (THA)

57 kg
1. Giovanni Parisi (ITA)
2. Daniel Dumitrescu (ROM)
3. Lee Jae Hyuk (KOR)
3. Mohamed Achik (MOR)

60 kg
1. Andreas Zulow (GDR)
2. George Cramme (SWE)
3. Romallis Ellis (USA)
3. Nerguy Enkhbat (MGL)

63.5 kg
1. Vyacheslav Yanovski (URS)
2. Grahame Cheney (AUS)
3. Lars Myrberg (SWE)
3. Reiner Gies (FRG)

67 kg
1. Robert Wangila (KEN)
2. Laurent Boudouani (FRA)
3. Jan Dydak ( POL)
3. Kenny Gould (USA)

71 kg
1. Park Si Hun (KOR)
2. Roy Jones (USA)
3. Richie Woodhall (GBR)
3. Raymond Downey (CAN)

75 kg
1. Henry Maske (GDR)
2. Egerton Marcus (CAN)
3. Chris Sande (KEN)
3. Hussain Shah Syed (PAK)

81 kg
1. Andrew Maynard (USA)
2. Nurmagomed Shanavazov (URS)
3. Damir Skaro (YUG)
3. Henryk Petrich (POL)

91 kg
1. Ray Mercer (USA)
2. Baik Hyun Man (KOR)
3. Andrej Golota (POL)
3. Arnold van der Lijde (NED)

+91 kg
1. Lennox Lewis (CAN)
2. Riddick Bowe (USA)
3. Janusz Zarenkiewicz (POL)
3. Alex Miroshnichenko (URS)

Team classification:
1. USA (3 gold-3 silver-2 bronze)
2. South Korea (2-1-1)
3. GDR (2-1-0)
4. URS (1-1-2)
5. Canada (1-1-1)
6. Bulgaria (1-1-0)
7. Kenya (1-0-1)
8. Italy (1-0-0)
9. Sweden (0-1-1)
10. France (0-1-0)
10. Romania (0-1-0)
10. Australia (0-1-0)
13. Poland (0-0-4)
14. Hungary (0-0-1)
14. Philippines (0-0-1)
14. Mexico (0-0-1)
14. Colombia (0-0-1)
14. Morocco (0-0-1)
14. Mongolia (0-0-1)
14. FRG (0-0-1)
14. England (0-0-1)
14. Pakistan (0-0-1)
14. Yugoslavia (0-0-1)
14. Netherlands (0-0-1)

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 01 Jun 2005, 17:05

Chopping Right wrote:Egerton Marcus (CAN)

Friend, camp member and sparring partner to a certain Lennox Lewis I believe.

Chopping Right · Post by **Chopping Right** » 01 Jun 2005, 17:19

KOJOE90 wrote:
Chopping Right wrote:Egerton Marcus (CAN)
Friend, camp member and sparring partner to a certain Lennox Lewis I believe.

Didn't realise he did so well as an amateur. Bit of a disappointing pro career although he did beat 81kg Gold medallist Andrew Maynard.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 01 Jun 2005, 17:26

Egerton Marcus developed eyesight problems I think.

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 02 Jun 2005, 12:10

Chopping Right wrote:I notice some of the Soviet bloc were there and some weren't, the Cubans certainly weren't.

All countries except North Koera and Cuba participated. Cuba boycotted the Games beacause North Korea weren't allowed to be co-organizers of the Games.
Soviet Union participated as one team and did really bad for such a big nation. Only one gold.

Chopping Right · Post by **Chopping Right** » 02 Jun 2005, 12:23

locoxelbox wrote:Cuba boycotted the Games beacause North Korea weren't allowed to be co-organizers of the Games.

Just out of interest if Cuba had attended in 88 who would have been their super-heavyweight entrant against Lennox Lewis?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14 Jun 2005, 04:29

KOJOE90 wrote:Egerton Marcus developed eyesight problems I think.

We are all very close here in Toronto, surely you must know

He's a trainer now, and doing pretty good, his main squeeze, Ross, just won the Canadian championship and looked really good