Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers

[BoxBuzz]

Hey, No time for that, I'm too busy sweepin' the floors.

[p4p1]

Goin back a few years. Fidel Labarba

That is a good pick.
Have to consider Ray Robinson. He had a great amateur career and of course a great pro career as well.
A few others worth mentioning:

Joe Louis
Pascual Perez
Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
Nino Benvenuti
Thomas Hearns
Evander Holyfield
Lennox Lewis.

Was Ray undefeated in the am's Alp? I seem to recall that. Not sure though.I think he may have fought there at 135 pounds too. He was probably unstopable.

by all reports he was undefeated something like 85 - 0, but i believe he really started to get attention while he was at 125

[Giancarlo]

85-2

[Nile4000]

Holyfield
Leonard
Whitaker
McCallum
Curry
Pryor
M.Spinks
Dokes.

[clubberlang]

Good picks, surprised these Four went unmentioned, The below were great amateurs, who went on to have in descending order a great, excellent x 2 & good pro careers.

Kostya Tzyu

Vernon Forest

Antonio Tarver

Mark Breland

[orbtastic]

"According to Pep he and Sugar Ray fought as amateurs in Norwich, Connecticut in 1938. Robinson supposedly won the decision and weighed in at 128 to Willie's 110."

I'm sure I have read this elsewhere too, perhaps a biography?

[Ambling Alp]

I thought I take a look the book "In this Corner". In it, Pep said they did fight and that Robinson won. He said that Robinson was much bigger than him. Robinson didn't talk about it at all.